Everyone's Blog Posts - Patriots Heart Network Media #phnm2019-05-25T13:46:07Zhttp://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=noDogs Not Welcome: Growing Calls by Muslims To Accommodate Their Hatred Of Dogstag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-05-24:2833032:BlogPost:2137812019-05-24T01:57:25.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>by Elizabeth Vaughn</p>
<p>CTV of Vancouver reported that numerous flyers had been posted at a local park which read, “Many Muslims live in this area and dogs are considered filthy in Islam. Please keep your dogs on a leash and away from the Muslims who live in this community.”<br></br>The city’s mayor was questioned about the signs by CTV and said they had not been issued by the city. However, he said “Whether they were produced by a well-meaning member of the Muslim community or by someone…</p>
<p>by Elizabeth Vaughn</p>
<p>CTV of Vancouver reported that numerous flyers had been posted at a local park which read, “Many Muslims live in this area and dogs are considered filthy in Islam. Please keep your dogs on a leash and away from the Muslims who live in this community.”<br/>The city’s mayor was questioned about the signs by CTV and said they had not been issued by the city. However, he said “Whether they were produced by a well-meaning member of the Muslim community or by someone wanting to cause contention, the fact remains that there are current bylaws in place that enforce areas for dogs to be on leash, except in designated off-leash areas.”<br/>The Stream.com’s John Zmirak reports that, as growing numbers of Muslims immigrate to non-Muslim countries, there have been similar calls to accommodate their cultural aversion to dogs.</p>
<p>Due to the proportionately larger Muslim populations living in European countries, many of these incidents have taken place over there.<br/>He cites a case in which a Dutch Muslim politician called for dogs to be banned in The Hague, one of the Netherlands biggest cities. Banned?<br/>According to the Gatestone Institute:<br/>In Spain, two Islamic groups based in Lérida — a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia where 29,000 Muslims now make up around 20% of the city’s total population — asked local officials to regulate the presence of dogs in public spaces so they do not “offend Muslims.” … Muslims said the presence of dogs in Lérida violates their religious freedom and their right to live according to Islamic principles.<br/>After their proposals were rejected by local politicians, an epidemic of dog-poisonings followed.<br/>Zmirak says England has “become “ground zero” for Europe’s canine controversies. Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their “unclean” guide dogs.”<br/>It also happens in the U.S. There have been numerous reported cases of blind travelers being refused rides by Muslim taxi drivers. According to a PJ Media article, over 75% of the Minneapolis Airport taxi drivers are Somali and many of them have refused service to fares with dogs. “When forced to do so, some of them simply quit.”<br/>I can envision a blind man with his service dog, exhausted from a long flight, having to stand outside the Minneapolis airport terminal until a non-Muslim driver finally pulls up.<br/>I happen to love dogs. In fact, I like dogs more than I like most people. That said, I certainly support leash laws and would never impose my dogs on others.<br/>But Muslims cannot expect Americans or Brits or anybody else to change their ways of life to accommodate them. Although we must certainly treat Muslims with respect, they must make more of an effort to assimilate into the local culture of their adopted countries.<br/>Here’s to God’s greatest gift to mankind – the dog!</p>
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<p>Me Here...….Now they want to take our dogs away! Screw it if that offends them! They come to another country and expect the country to do things their way! Sorry! When in Rome do as the Romans do!</p>
<p>I hope this begins to wake people up to this stupidity. It is time to draw the hard line here. If we give and give, we will have nothing left! </p>
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<p></p>Dues Skimming Meets Its Demisetag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-05-07:2833032:BlogPost:2136602019-05-07T02:04:17.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Federal rule ends a union's ability to involuntarily take money from home health care givers</p>
<p>By Patrick J. Wright</p>
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<p>Today, due to a newly minted federal rule, the rest of the United States finally joins Michigan in ending the home health care dues skim, whereby Medicaid grants meant to fund the care of the elderly and disabled were being diverted to unions. In its 2014 Harris v. Quinn decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that requiring mandatory dues or fees from these…</p>
<p>Federal rule ends a union's ability to involuntarily take money from home health care givers</p>
<p>By Patrick J. Wright</p>
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<p>Today, due to a newly minted federal rule, the rest of the United States finally joins Michigan in ending the home health care dues skim, whereby Medicaid grants meant to fund the care of the elderly and disabled were being diverted to unions. In its 2014 Harris v. Quinn decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that requiring mandatory dues or fees from these health care providers was unconstitutional. But since that ruling, unions have been subverting that decision. The new federal rule should put an end to this practice and will make certain that any money the union receives from these health care providers (who are typically family or friends of the care recipient) is truly voluntary.<br/>As detailed in the Mackinac Center’s amicus brief in Harris v. Quinn, unions began skimming money from home health care providers in 1999 in California, and then brought the practice to Oregon and Washington. In Michigan, unionization of these providers began in 2004. From the outset, it made little sense why a union was even needed: the “employer” was the care recipient and the “employee” was the care provider — neither were public employees. Yet, to achieve the unionization, the Granholm administration created the Michigan Quality Community Care Council to act as an employer, even though it didn’t actually employ any home health care providers. This council was created hastily and surreptitiously through an interlocal agency, which the administration sought to hide from the Legislature. Then the SEIU held an election, in which only 8,000 of the 40,000 providers participated. But that was enough to install SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the “bargaining agent” for these providers, even though there was no one to bargain with.<br/>Soon after that election, in November 2006, the dues began flowing to the SEIU. By March 2012, a total of $31,317,790.40 had been skimmed off the top of Medicaid payments meant to provide services to the elderly and disabled. Michigan finally enacted legislation to end it. But still, the SEIU persisted, going so far as to contribute money to the fake employer to keep it going even as the director of the organization was collecting unemployment insurance. Eventually the dues skim ended, Medicaid recipients got their full payments and membership in SEIU Healthcare Michigan plummeted.<br/>Nationally, the unions put up a similar fight after Harris v. Quinn. Their legislative allies enacted statutes making it easier to claim that the employee authorized the funds, and the unions continued to divert around $200 million in Medicaid funds. The new federal rule will stop all of these methods. No money will be permitted to go to any one else other than the care provider or Medicaid recipient. The unions will no longer be able to involuntarily take money from those who are just trying to provide care for elderly or disabled loved ones. This is a just result.<br/>Permission to reprint this blog post in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author (or authors) and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy are properly cited. Permission to reprint any comments below is granted only for those comments written by Mackinac Center policy staff.</p>
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<p>Me Here....How low are these thief's! While these same people were telling people that the GOP was going to push granny over the cliff. The truth was these same people were stealing their government payments to stuff their campaign funds!</p>
<p>This happened to my GF's disabled sister. They STOLE from her! </p>
<p>These low lifes are disgusting! They do NOT care about those they falsely claim to protect. They steal from the most vulnerable! Then they have the hutzpah to claim it is the GOP trying to harm granny! </p>
<p>They are lying as usual! </p>New ship ordered for Great Lakestag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-28:2833032:BlogPost:2137562019-04-28T18:09:38.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>By Brady Slater</p>
<p>The first U.S.-flag laker to be built this century was commissioned this week and figures to be completed by mid-2022. The new "river-class" vessel will be built to transit the Great Lakes and service customers in some of the smaller harbors found in the rivers connecting the lakes.<br></br>Commissioned by Interlake Steamship Company, based outside Cleveland, the 639-foot carrier capable of hauling 28,000 gross tons will be built in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., by Fincantieri Bay…</p>
<p>By Brady Slater</p>
<p>The first U.S.-flag laker to be built this century was commissioned this week and figures to be completed by mid-2022. The new "river-class" vessel will be built to transit the Great Lakes and service customers in some of the smaller harbors found in the rivers connecting the lakes.<br/>Commissioned by Interlake Steamship Company, based outside Cleveland, the 639-foot carrier capable of hauling 28,000 gross tons will be built in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. Both companies have 100-plus years of history on the Great Lakes.</p>
<p>"We're proud to add it, announce it and ensure we serve our customers for years to come," Interlake Steamship President Mark Barker told the News Tribune. "It's being built with a lot of steel from Great Lakes steel mills to carry the products that help to do just that."<br/>The yet-to-be named ship will now enter a design phase, using Bay Engineering, based in Fairfax, Va. Billed as coming with "advanced vessel and unloading systems automation," the ship will become the 10th ship in the Interlake Steamship fleet once completed. The most recent ship in the Interlake fleet prior to it was the 1,013-foot Paul R. Tregurtha launched in 1981.<br/>"We are excited to construct this historic large-scale bulk carrier on the Great Lakes for Great Lakes operation," said Pincantieri Bay's Vice President and General Manager Todd Thayse in a joint news release. Thayse said the new ship is believed to be the first new laker built since 1983, more than 35 years ago.<br/>Locally, the news was met with excitement by the Duluth Seaway Port Authority.<br/>"It's definitely exciting news and a positive sign not only for Great Lakes shipping, but also for the numerous and diverse economies that are supported by Great Lakes shipping — the shipbuilders, the industries and the communities as a whole," Port Authority spokesperson Jayson Hron said. "Diving into the specs, it looks like an innovative vessel with a versatile design that will allow it to transit the entire Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway."<br/>Barker described the ship as being built for a set of customers who have specific requirements, adding that it will transport typical raw materials of the Great Lakes, including taconite iron ore. Barker declined to say how much the new ship will cost.<br/>"We needed to make sure to build a ship that would supply our customers what they need," Barker said. "It's meant for certain ports in the river market."<br/>The news release said it would be built for high-level maneuverability, with bow and stern thrusters, a flap rudder, and the newest self-unloading technology, including "a unique cargo hold and cargo hatch covers designed for maximum cubic space and the ability to handle difficult cargoes."</p>
<p>The ship will feature twin diesel engines with the strictest off-highway emissions standards, and a "single-screw" propeller with a controllable pitch. Its maximum speed will be 15 mph.<br/>The announcement of the vessel disrupts a long affair on the lakes with bringing tug-barges onto fleets. After a ship-building boom in the 1970s that brought the Great Lakes a series of 1,000-foot ships, the practice seemed to reach capacity and vanish. Tug-barges began to emerge on the lakes in the 1990s, becoming fashionable arrivals to rosters of domestic ship companies for their utility and economic sense. Imagine a tug-barge as chopping off the stern end of a barge, notching it and plugging in a tug. The tug consolidates living space for a smaller crew, while also providing a modern engine room and power plant.<br/>"Tug-barges have a place," Barker said, "but for what we're doing and trying to achieve a ship made the most sense."<br/>The shipyard's Thayse said nearly 700 trade workers will be involved in the project.<br/>The federal Jones Act of 1920 requires U.S.-built and crewed ships to carry U.S. goods between U.S. ports, making it necessary for Great Lakes ships to be constructed domestically. Thayse said major partners for the project include "the American Bureau of Shipping, EMD Engines, Caterpillar, EMS-Tech, Inc., Lufkin (a GE Company) and MacGregor."<br/>Based in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, Interlake Steamship is the largest privately held U.S.-flag fleet on the Great Lakes.<br/>"The Interlake Steamship Company is also extremely proud to build locally, supporting surrounding communities and states," Barker said in the news release.<br/>The announcement also described the long relationship between Interlake Steamship and Fincantieri, with the shipyard handling four repowers and lots of other updates, maintenance and repairs.<br/>"We've spent the past 10 years or more modernizing our fleet," Barker said. "We wanted to bring a new asset to bear for our customers. It's pretty exciting."</p>
<p><a href="https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/transportation/4597056-new-ship-ordered-great-lakes">https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/transportation/4597056-new-ship-ordered-great-lakes</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....Last night President Trump mentioned that Interlake Steamship Company was going to build a new ship for the Great Lakes. Here is a story from Interlake on the ship. The link has a drawing of the new ship. </p>Biden: ‘Not One Single Whisper of Scandal’ During the Obama Administrationtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-28:2833032:BlogPost:2135562019-04-28T00:04:28.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>BY: Andrew Kugle</p>
<p>Former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Friday that the thing he was most proud of about the Obama administration was that there was "not one single whisper of scandal."<br></br>"The thing I'm proudest of is we, coincidentally, we were each in a different part of the country and we were each talking to groups of people that were being televised. On the same day, purely coincidentally, we were asked what are you proudest of from…</p>
<p>BY: Andrew Kugle</p>
<p>Former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Friday that the thing he was most proud of about the Obama administration was that there was "not one single whisper of scandal."<br/>"The thing I'm proudest of is we, coincidentally, we were each in a different part of the country and we were each talking to groups of people that were being televised. On the same day, purely coincidentally, we were asked what are you proudest of from your administration? You know what I said—he said the same thing, though probably a bit more clearly than I did: Not one single whisper of scandal," Biden said on ABC's The View. "That's because of Barack Obama."<br/>This has been a common refrain among Democrats and people in the media. In 2018, Obama himself declared his presidency was free from scandal.<br/>"I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about," Obama said.</p>
<p>Despite Obama's claim of a scandal free presidency, his administration was plagued by numerous scandals. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's email scandal, the administration's response to the 2012 terror attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, a scandal involving the IRS targeting conservative organizations, Operation Fast and Furious, Department of Justice's tracking of reporter James Rosen, the Solyndra scandal, and the failures of the Department of Veterans Affairs are a few of the scandals to have occurred throughout Obama's time in office.<br/>Biden was asked by host Joy Behar why Obama hasn't come out and endorsed him, to which he said he asked Obama not to endorse him.</p>
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<p>Me Here....Sorry Mr. Former Vice President Biden you are completely wrong. Sadly that is normal for you! The entire 8 years of Usurper Barry Soetoro was the greatest scandal in American history. The depth of the scandal is still growing as we learn more and more details of the Soetoro White House spying on and attempting remove President Trump from office.</p>
<p>Mr. Former Vice President Biden, it isn't a whisper, it is every Civil Defense siren across this nation screaming scandal! </p>NJ Dem. Gov. Recall Petition Approved, Hundreds Mobilized to Get Signaturestag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-24:2833032:BlogPost:2132932019-04-24T15:58:32.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Law enforcement, vets disapprove of Murphy's immigration policies.<br></br>BY: Mary Lou Lang</p>
<p>A petition to recall Gov. Phil Murphy (D.) was approved by the New Jersey Division of Elections after months of delays, and organizers are now mobilizing to collect enough signatures for a recall election to remove him over what they say are his misguided and radical policies.<br></br>Somerset County resident Terry Beck, one of three women behind the grassroots effort, told the Washington Free Beacon…</p>
<p>Law enforcement, vets disapprove of Murphy's immigration policies.<br/>BY: Mary Lou Lang</p>
<p>A petition to recall Gov. Phil Murphy (D.) was approved by the New Jersey Division of Elections after months of delays, and organizers are now mobilizing to collect enough signatures for a recall election to remove him over what they say are his misguided and radical policies.<br/>Somerset County resident Terry Beck, one of three women behind the grassroots effort, told the Washington Free Beacon she has hundreds of people with whom she is coordinating, including in law enforcement and veterans, who disapprove of Murphy's performance and policies, especially on immigration.<br/>"The driving factor to challenge Mr. Murphy—not even on just a state level but on a federal level as well—was when he decided that he would put New Jersey tax-paying citizens (doing the right thing) at risk by ‘enabling' criminals/illegals to enter and exist on ‘our' American property while breaking the federal law and we would be forced to pay for their free ride while stripping all levels of law enforcement duties to protect us," said Beck.<br/>Murphy declaring New Jersey a sanctuary state was the impetus, but other contributing factors to the effort include Murphy's gun laws and what the group believes is his disrespect for veterans.</p>
<p>Murphy declared that New Jersey would be a "sanctuary" state last November. His attorney general issued new guidelines to law enforcement when dealing with illegal immigrants, effectively banning officers from cooperating with ICE. The attorney general's directive also states officers cannot ask about immigration status unless it involves a serious offense.<br/>Mario Suarez, a retired Atlantic City police officer who owns numerous small businesses, is supporting the recall and said he will do whatever he can to remove Murphy from office.<br/>"The policies of the governor have been completely anti-police," he said in a phone interview.<br/>Suarez, who also runs a private investigative agency, employs numerous law enforcement officers. He said "zero" support Murphy.<br/>"They are all complaining they aren't allowed to cooperate with ICE," said Suarez. "I don't know a single law enforcement person—not one—who supports him."<br/>Other reasons Suarez cited for recalling Murphy include free college tuition for illegal immigrants, paid legal fees so they can remain in the country, the gas tax, a $15 minimum wage, and high property taxes.<br/>"We need someone who understands and responds to the people of New Jersey," said Suarez. "We need to get him out as soon as possible. Almost anyone could be better."<br/>Murphy also riled gun owners when he signed into law several gun bills last year.<br/>Anthony Colandro, owner of the Gun for Hire range, told the Free Beacon he is promoting the effort "because there is nothing more repulsive than a rich socialist."<br/>"He passed eight gun laws that have made it harder for law-abiding citizens," Colandro said, adding it will do nothing to lower crime.<br/>Colandro also listed a litany of Murphy's policies, including his new rainfall tax, his gas tax, his $2.2 million authorization for legal defense funds for illegal immigrants, and his $2.5 million authorization for college for illegal immigrants.<br/>"When you have a socialist running the top, so focused on the radical base … law-abiding citizens are kind of lost and have become the forgotten man," said Colandro. "We are seeing a high level of frustration and there is no end in sight."<br/>Gov. Murphy's office did not respond to several requests for comment.<br/>One of the first recall petition signing parties was held by the Toms River GOP on Good Friday, a day after the petition received approval under N.J. statutes.<br/>"A recall petition has been submitted and approved," Trudi Gilfillian, director of communications for the N.J. Department of State, said in an email on Monday. "The next step is to obtain at least 1,469,420 signatures to be valid."<br/>The required number of signatures must be collected in 320 days from the time the petition was approved for a recall gubernatorial election to be held.<br/>The number of signatures needed amounts to 25 percent of the registered voters in the state. According to Division of Elections data, only 39 percent, or 2.2 million people, voted in the 2017 election of Murphy, of the 5.7 million eligible voters.<br/>An official website dubbed Help Save NJ and its Facebook page, Recall Phil Murphy Petition, is garnering increased attention with many residents expressing their support for Murphy's ouster. The organizers said they have reached 250,000 people so far.</p>
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<p>Me Here...I hope the good people of New Jersey throw this bum out quickly. He is so out of step with most people in New Jersey and the nation. </p>
<p>I pray and wish these citizens well!!!</p>SCOTUS Takes on Census Citizenship Question – Conservative Majority Signals Support For Trump Administrationtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-24:2833032:BlogPost:2134772019-04-24T01:12:59.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>by Cristina Laila</p>
<p>The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears to be taking President Trump’s side on his administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.</p>
<p>Liberals went berserk after Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross announced last year that the 2020 census will include a question on citizenship.<br></br>As expected, the Democrats and several ultra liberal advocacy groups aren’t taking this imminent victory for the President well.</p>
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<p>by Cristina Laila</p>
<p>The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears to be taking President Trump’s side on his administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.</p>
<p>Liberals went berserk after Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross announced last year that the 2020 census will include a question on citizenship.<br/>As expected, the Democrats and several ultra liberal advocacy groups aren’t taking this imminent victory for the President well.</p>
<p>The anti-American ACLU argued that the citizenship census question will cause immigrants to “freak out” and will deter at least 6.5 million people from responding to the census.<br/>Conservative justices signaled their support for Trump’s administration on Tuesday during arguments, claiming the citizenship question would be totally reasonable.<br/>Among the conservative justices signaling support for the administration’s stance were Trump’s two appointees, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, and Chief Justice John Roberts, reported Reuters.<br/>One of the most important things President Trump has done since he was elected is appoint two conservative SCOTUS justices which now leaves the court at a 5-4 conservative majority.</p>
<p>The liberals fear the citizenship question would cost Democrat strongholds electoral representation in Congress and federal aide and benefit Republican-leaning areas.<br/>Of course the Democrats don’t want the citizenship question on the census because it gives illegal aliens representation in Congress — illegal aliens don’t even have to be given voting rights, as long as they are counted as citizens, they are given a US Representative who fights for their interests over the interests of taxpaying Americans — this is precisely why the Democrats are fighting like hell to stop the Trump admin from adding this question to the census.<br/>The census is taken every 10 years and is used to allot seats to the US House of Representatives in addition to distributing almost $1 trillion in federal funds.<br/>Reuters reported that during the 80 minutes of arguments Tuesday, Roberts said that citizenship data is critical for enforcing the Voting Rights Act and said it was “quite common” for the census to capture demographic details.<br/>Kavanaugh said it is a “very common question” internationally, and that federal law gives Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department includes the Census Bureau, “huge discretion” in how the survey is conducted, reported Reuters.<br/>Liberal justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor argued that the citizenship question would undercount the population — they seem upset that illegals won’t be able to siphon money and resources.<br/>It is unclear when the Supreme Court will issue a final ruling on the citizenship census question, however, they are under somewhat of a time crunch.<br/>The Commerce Department will start printing up census documents in June which is the same month that the Supreme Court generally issues its biggest decisions.<br/>Stay tuned!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/scotus-takes-on-census-citizenship-question-conservative-majority-signals-support-for-trump-administration/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/scotus-takes-on-census-citizenship-question-conservative-majority-signals-support-for-trump-administration/</a></p>
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<p>Me Here....I worked as part of the 2010 Census.</p>
<p>Here is what the Constitution says in Article 1 Section 2 ...The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. .....</p>
<p>That is all our founding fathers said about the Census. There is nothing here to approve or prevent a question of Citizenship. For many, many Censuses from 1820 to 1950 a question on Citizenship was asked. So historically, it is a very valid question.</p>
<p>The real question is why the Census stop asking a Citizenship question???? Why?</p>
<p>We will see how the Supreme Court will rule on this. Ideally the vote should be 9-0 to allow the question. It should be a no brainer. I am sure 4 will vote no. That is stupid. It leaves me to wonder if they have ever read the Constitution? </p>
<p></p>Hillary Clinton: ‘It Could Not Be Clearer’ — Trump Would Be Indicted for Obstruction if He Wasn’t POTUStag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-23:2833032:BlogPost:2132872019-04-23T23:31:38.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>by: PAM KEY</p>
<p>Tuesday at the “Time 100 Summit,” during a Q&amp;A session in New York, Hillary Clinton said it was clear in Robert Mueller‘s report impeachment of President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.<br></br>Clinton said, “I think there’s enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted. But because of the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting president, the whole matter of obstruction was very…</p>
<p>by: PAM KEY</p>
<p>Tuesday at the “Time 100 Summit,” during a Q&amp;A session in New York, Hillary Clinton said it was clear in Robert Mueller‘s report impeachment of President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.<br/>Clinton said, “I think there’s enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted. But because of the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting president, the whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to the Congress.”</p>
<p>She continued, “If you read that part of the report, it could not be clearer. As I read basically what I thought it was saying is, ‘Look we think he obstructed justice here are 11 examples of why we think he obstructed justice but we are under the control of the Justice Department, and their rule is you can’t indite.'”</p>
<p>Tuesday at the “Time 100 Summit,” during a Q&amp;A session in New York, Hillary Clinton said it was clear in Robert Mueller‘s report impeachment of President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.<br/>Clinton said, “I think there’s enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted. But because of the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting president, the whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to the Congress.”</p>
<p>She continued, “If you read that part of the report, it could not be clearer. As I read basically what I thought it was saying is, ‘Look we think he obstructed justice here are 11 examples of why we think he obstructed justice but we are under the control of the Justice Department, and their rule is you can’t indite.'”</p>
<p>She added, “We do have checks and balances in America, and there is this thing called Congress. You could not be more explicit than ‘please, look at this. You may conclude it doesn’t rise to an impeachable offense, that’s your job, but I’m giving this to you.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/23/hillary-clinton-it-could-not-be-clearer-trump-would-be-indicted-for-obstruction-if-he-wasnt-potus/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29">https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/23/hillary-clinton-it-could-not-be-clearer-trump-would-be-indicted-for-obstruction-if-he-wasnt-potus/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29</a></p>
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<p>Me Here....This is typical of democrats. They talk about themselves, but blame it all on republicans!</p>
<p>It was Hillary that did all that she blames on President Trump.</p>
<p>She paid for the libelous fake dosie. She colluded with the Russians. She was bought by the Russians when she was Secretary of State. She committed multiple felonies mishandling highly classified messages with her illegal server. She destroyed subpoenaed evidence. If she had been elected, she should have been impeached the very next day!</p>
<p>It is the hope of tens of millions that AG Barr fully investigates her, charges her, and makes her finally face justice.</p>
<p>She is a career crimenal. She must be brought to justice for her crimes.</p>
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<p></p>Hit and Run Commentary #123tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-20:2833032:BlogPost:2132812019-04-20T13:54:09.000ZFrederick Meekinshttp://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/FrederickMeekins
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In an interview about artificial intelligence and transhumanism conducted by the Singularity Weblog, philosopher Peter Singer let it slip that he did not particularly love animals. He also revealed that, while mostly vegan, he did not think it was that big a deal if he did occasionally consume animal products, As such, given that he does not think human beings are to be valued above animals, does that mean he doesn’t have any problem with…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In an interview about artificial intelligence and transhumanism conducted by the Singularity Weblog, philosopher Peter Singer let it slip that he did not particularly love animals. He also revealed that, while mostly vegan, he did not think it was that big a deal if he did occasionally consume animal products, As such, given that he does not think human beings are to be valued above animals, does that mean he doesn’t have any problem with cannibalism?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump assures that he is in no hurry to denuclearize North Korea. So like numerous Presidents before him that he no doubt criticized, he is kicking this ball down the corridors of time for some future commander and chief to deal with.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A comic book is being published featuring the superheroic adventures of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A portion of the proceeds are supposedly going to charity. However, to truly embody her spirit, shouldn’t 75% of the profit derived from sales be seized and squandered on bloated government programs aimed at expanding tyranny and human misery?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently Trump is nearly as naive as Dennis Rodman in regards to the North Korean dictator. Will similar capitulation on the border wall be far behind?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If the Peace Cross memorializing specific World War I veterans is to be removed as symbol of Christian belief, shouldn't the Washington Monument also be removed as an obelisk is a symbol of pagan ritual?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cory Booker has introduced legislation to legalize pot on the national level. Yet this Senator, if given the opportunity, would curtail the access of the average American to meat.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If corporations can now determine access to goods and services on the basis of how they will be utilized in propagating particular wordviews, what is to prevent individuals from being denied access to utilities, transportation and food supplies for failure to ideologically comply with prevailing herd mentalities?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If it is bigoted to vocalize concern about the deleterious impact of dual loyalty in politics, how long until votes in Congress are taken to condemn those holding that Christ as part of the divine triune Godhead is the only valid path to salvation because adherents of certain other world religions harbor their own animus to such a theological proposition?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Simpsons producers have agreed to essentially expunge the episode guest starring Michael Jackson from the collective consciousness. It will no longer be available in streaming, syndication rotations, or as part of DVD box sets. So just how far should this cultural manipulation extend? Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson as well as other characters in the series, is a Scientologist. Does that mean the existence of the entire series must now be erased from the space/time continuum?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a jab believed directed at President Trump, Obama lamented how people want their own facts. He patted himself on the back that his own administration was successful because he believed in things like facts and logic. So what exactly constituted a fact during the Obama regime: that if you liked your doctor, you could keep your doctor? Does Obama also renounce his multiculturalist allies that for the past three decades conditioned generations of students into denouncing logic and facts as White heterosexist modalities of cognition?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a homily posted at SermonAudio titled “Understanding Cults” a pastor lamented that those that study about cults and share this information are not really doing much. But is this not along with familiarizing oneself with the tenants of sound theology the first step in developing a defense against these sects? How does the minister know that this passed along knowledge won’t be what frees a soul from this variety of spiritual entrapment?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Christian lad forfeited a wrestling match because, he told the media, it violated his conscience to get aggressive with a woman in such a manner. If a woman wants the snot knocked out of her, that is her business. However, the more important question it seems that the spineless media is afraid to ask is, if a male is tussling with her on the mat and has an erection, will he be accused of a crime or harassment?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A missionary reflected that when he commenced his career in 1986 that there were sixty people in the orientation class sponsored by his missions board. However, this year, he lamented, there were only ten. So why are believers obligated to feel guilty if God is no longer leading souls to minister through a particular organization mentioned nowhere in Scripture? Can the missionary produce statistics that the decline in numbers for one organization have not been made up for by another or more are not being reached through more efficient technology and deployment of resources? As Ann Coulter remarked about missions, is there not enough that needs to be done here in the United States?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Wall Street Journal reports that fewer men are purchasing suits as business casual becomes more the fashion norm. A female WMAL host lamented the trend because she liked how a man looks in a suit. But if a man really has no real prospects of getting ahead and if this form of clothing isn’t even any longer required and if an individual is overlooked by women in the first place, why ought they even to care? Secondly, would it be tolerated on early morning drive time radio if a male broadcaster handed down similar condemnations of female frumpiness?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jussie Smollett is a reprehensible individual. But so is a policy that attempts to stick with the cost of a police investigation an accused individual that has not been found guilty in a court of law. What is to prevent the government from employing this tactic to seize funds from other unsuspecting citizens?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ones yammering the loudest about the proposal to cut federal funding for Special Olympics are the same ones that often insistent that the Special Olympians should have been denied the right to be born in the first place. If you think the lives of the disabled will be diminished without the opportunities provided by Special Olympics, just think how miserable they are going to be when the entire economy collapses because of shyrocketing debt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently the push now is for the issue of reparations to be studied. In other words, significant money will be squandered on how to squander even more money.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Will the likes of Bernie Sanders advocating imprisoned felons voting still support the proposition if the convicts vote Libertarian?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The March 27, 2019 cover of The Nation Magazine reads “What all parents can learn from Black mothers”. Because as of late they have been doing such a superb job. From the wanton procreating with any dude that comes along irrespective of quality to the failure to control the offspring that happen to elude the abortionist’s hacksaw as these tramps are out having additional tykes by as many fathers often with so many potential fathers that Maury can get repeat appearances by the same core guests. So will the Nation have an accompanying article titled “What all parents can learn from White mothers” or gasp, White fathers?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Outrage erupted over Fox News posting “Aid Cut To Three Mexican Countries”. But aren’t radical multiculturalists in part at fault for creating the impression regarding the interchangeability of Latin American countries and cultures?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If Judge Jeanine is obligated to articulate nothing but adulatory praise over legislators adorning themselves in the garments of Islamist oppression, why should tolerancemongers give a flip if a Fox News correspondent wore a bulletproof vest while reporting from the border? Isn’t it his body, his choice?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A number of individuals having lost family in mass shootings have committed suicide recently over their grief. Wouldn’t the gunmen bear more responsibility for that than an organization such as the NRA?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By Frederick Meekins</span></p>MSNBC Host: ‘The Way to Get to the Truth Is an Impeachment Exercise’tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-19:2833032:BlogPost:2133742019-04-19T13:14:52.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>BY: Jeffrey Cimmino</p>
<p>MSNBC host Chris Matthews argued the way to get to the truth regarding President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia is through pursuing impeachment during an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon.<br></br>"So final question, Chris. Where does this leave us? Because the Democrats in Congress have a real choice here about how and where to streamline their objections, their bills of particulars, and their investigation," fellow MSNBC host Brian Williams…</p>
<p>BY: Jeffrey Cimmino</p>
<p>MSNBC host Chris Matthews argued the way to get to the truth regarding President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia is through pursuing impeachment during an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon.<br/>"So final question, Chris. Where does this leave us? Because the Democrats in Congress have a real choice here about how and where to streamline their objections, their bills of particulars, and their investigation," fellow MSNBC host Brian Williams asked.<br/>"Well, they can take the obstruction of justice point, they can take elements of the collusion part, clearly all this ball playing, I mean. I think the decision by the Mueller team to say you can't prosecute on a guy who takes dirt from Wikileaks, from Guccifer 2.0 and uses that as part of a propaganda campaign along the lines the Russians intended, which was to hurt Hillary and help Trump, I don't see that—why that is not advancing a conspiracy, but I guess that is their legal judgment," Matthews began.</p>
<p>"That seems to be a big difference between them reporting it for their political purposes and someone in the objective media simply saying here is what the Russians are pushing. It seems to be two totally different stories," Matthews continued.</p>
<p>Matthews then criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D., Calif.) expressed opposition to pursuing impeachment without bipartisan support.<br/>"But I think that it's going to come down to, let's face it, Jerry Nadler, who is listening to Nancy Pelosi, and Nancy Pelosi has made a political judgment that without Republican support for an impeachment exercise, she shouldn't go along with it for political reasons. In other words, if you can't make the case in a bipartisan fashion, don't make it, because it will only serve the purpose of hurting yourself politically," Matthews said.<br/>Matthews accused Pelosi of being inconsistent in pursuing the truth.<br/>"As journalists and as commentators, we can say, you know that is not the right way to make a decision, because you're been saying all along that your questions about Trump and his behavior were nonpartisan, you simply wanted get the truth and follow the truth. But then you can't step back and say, well now I'm going to make a political judgment, it is not in our interests to pursue this in a partisan fashion if that is what it comes to. That is not being consistent," Matthews said.<br/>"If you're going after the truth, go all the way to the truth and the way to get to the truth is an impeachment exercise. That is how you get the truth, that's how you get the subpoena power that will be upheld. I think this Supreme Court will support the right of any Congress to advance the cause of an impeachment exercise," Matthews added.<br/>Earlier today, Attorney General William Barr told reporters special counsel Robert Mueller found "no evidence" President Trump or campaign associates conspired with Russia to collude to interfere in the 2016 election. Barr also said no material in the Mueller report was redacted on grounds of executive privilege.<br/>On the issue of obstruction of justice, Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not fully agree with Mueller's legal theories and "felt that some of the episodes did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law."<br/>Mueller's report, which was released after Barr spoke, stated the investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."</p>
<p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-host-the-way-to-get-to-the-truth-is-an-impeachment-exercise/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=5c423d4c8f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_18_08_11_COPY_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5c423d4c8f-46096201">https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-host-the-way-to-get-to-the-truth-is-an-impeachment-exercise/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=5c423d4c8f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_18_08_11_COPY_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5c423d4c8f-46096201</a></p>
<p>Me Here.....Chris lives in the echo chamber of liberralism. He only hears those that hate President Trump like himself. So he parrots what he hears. </p>
<p>So Chris wants the Democrats to triple down on failure. That would be the best thing that can happen to President Trump and the Republican Party. Going for impeachment that would despite his spin show all Americans how blindly partisan and sore losers Chris and his circle of losers are. That will bring a great defeat for so many Democrats next year. </p>
<p>So Chris, keep ranting and raving your hate. We will win big with it!</p>
<p></p>Cell of French women guided by Isis behind failed Notre Dame attack (2 Years Ago)tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-16:2833032:BlogPost:2132682019-04-16T01:30:00.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Police say another operation was planned by group, one of whom had been engaged to two men who carried out deadly attacks<br></br> 2019 Notre Dame fire updates – police say fire began accidentally and may be linked to building work at cathedral</p>
<p>A cell of radicalised French women guided by Islamic State commanders in Syria was behind a failed terrorist attack near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral last weekend and planned another violent attack this week before they were intercepted by police,…</p>
<p>Police say another operation was planned by group, one of whom had been engaged to two men who carried out deadly attacks<br/> 2019 Notre Dame fire updates – police say fire began accidentally and may be linked to building work at cathedral</p>
<p>A cell of radicalised French women guided by Islamic State commanders in Syria was behind a failed terrorist attack near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral last weekend and planned another violent attack this week before they were intercepted by police, the Paris prosecutor has said. <br/> The women, aged 19, 23 and 39, were arrested in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, a small town 19 miles (30km) south-east of Paris, on Thursday night after they were linked to the discovery of a car packed with gas cylinders parked near the cathedral last weekend. Officials said the women had been planning an imminent violent attack on the busy Gare de Lyon station in Paris and were stopped after a police and intelligence operation described as a “race against time”.<br/> The Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said one of the women arrested, who he referred to as Sarah H, aged 23, had been engaged at different times to two French extremists who themselves had carried out deadly attacks this year.</p>
<p>She had been engaged to Larossi Abballa, who in June murdered a police commander and his police officer partner at their home in Magnanville outside Paris in the presence of their three-year-old son. He filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid. She was also betrothed to Adel Kermiche, who slit the throat of an elderly French priest during morning mass in Normandy in July. Her current fiancé was arrested on Thursday, Molins said.<br/> The prosecutor said the cell of women terrorists showed that Islamic State “intends to make women into fighters”. He said that if women had previously been “confined to family and domestic tasks” by the militant group, that vision was now strongly out of date. “Their aim was to commit an attack,” he said of the women.<br/> The group’s first attempted attack involved parking a Peugeot 607 car packed with gas cylinders near the cathedral in the heart of Paris and trying to blow it up. The car was also found to have contained diesel canisters and a barely-smoked cigarette had been thrown into the car near a canister with traces of hydrocarbons. Molins said the perpetrators had clearly tried to blow the car up and if they had succeeded it would have led to the explosion of the whole vehicle. <br/> The car had no plates and was left with indicators flashing in a narrow alley. From the insurance sticker on the car, police traced it back to a father of five daughters originally from the Seine-Saint-Denis area north of Paris. <br/> One of the daughters, aged 19, who was named by news agencies as Ines Madani, was known to intelligence agencies and had been on a radicalisation watchlist for her wish to leave to join jihadis in Syria. At the time the car was found, she had been missing from home for several days. <br/> Police on Thursday traced Madani and two other women to a flat in Boussy-Saint-Antoine in the Essonne area south of Paris. They arrested the three women when they left the flat. During the arrest, one of the women stabbed a police officer with a large kitchen knife, and Madani jumped on another officer attempting to stab him. The police opened fire and Madani was injured. When she was arrested, Madani had the keys to the Peugeot 607 in her handbag and a note pledging her allegiance to Isis and a reproduction of an Isis text vowing “we will attack you on your territory to attack your spirits and terrorise you”. Isis propaganda was found on her computer at her home. <br/> A 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of one of the three women arrested, Amel S, was separately detained on Friday morning in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris. The prosecutor said the teenager could have been implicated in the planned terrorist attack.<br/> The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, had said of the three women detained on Thursday that they were “radicalised and fanaticised” and believed to have been preparing “new and imminent violent action”. He said there had been a “race against time” to stop them, involving a vast police and intelligence operation.<br/> “France is confronted with a terrorist threat of unprecedented scale,” he added. The changing threat took different forms and was very hard to detect, he added, calling for the “vigilance of all citizens”.<br/> The French president, François Hollande, said: “There’s a group that has been annihilated, but there are others. Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late.’’<br/> Speaking on Friday morning, an interior ministry official told Reuters: “An alert has been issued to all stations, but they had planned to attack the Gare de Lyon on Thursday.”<br/> The train station, one of the busiest in Paris, is in the south-east of the capital.<br/> The discovery of the Peugeot 607 near Notre Dame carrying seven gas cylinders, six of them full, led to a terrorism investigation and revived fears about further attacks in a country where Islamic militants have killed more than 230 people since January 2015.<br/> Several people have been arrested and questioned in the case of the car of gas cylinders. A 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were detained on Wednesday south of Paris and a second couple, a 34-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, were detained on Tuesday.<br/> Earlier this week, Florence Berthout, the mayor of Paris’s fifth arrondissement, said the discovery of the car highlighted the need to increase security in the French capital. “Police and army staffing must be stepped up,” she told news channel BFMTV.<br/> The vehicle was left in a zone where parking is strictly prohibited and had remained there for about two hours before it came to the attention of police after being reported by a waiter at a nearby restaurant, she said.<br/> Thousands of extra police and soldiers have been deployed to protect sensitive sites across France. A state of emergency declared after the coordinated attacks on Paris last November remains in place and gives police extra search and arrest powers, but there has been a continuing political debate about security levels since 85 people were killed when a man driving a lorry ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on 14 July in Nice.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/cell-of-french-women-radicalised-by-isis-behind-failed-notre-dame-attack">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/cell-of-french-women-radicalised-by-isis-behind-failed-notre-dame-attack</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....This is a tragedy. So much destruction. But why so too quickly is terrorism being ruled out? We only know that a very destructive fire happened. How can anyone rule our terrorism when we have no clue how it started?</p>
<p>I was watching FOX News on the fire. One guest started to talk about terrorism and was quickly silenced by the host. WHY? </p>
<p>ISIS has a long history of destroying historical sites around the world. ISIS as in the above article has already targeted Notre Dame. So why wouldn't they try again? Why not today?</p>
<p>If, IF this was terrorism, this must be made public.</p>
<p>More....</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/blow-to-the-hearts-of-crusader-leaders-isis-supporters-cheer-as-fire-rips-through-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/blow-to-the-hearts-of-crusader-leaders-isis-supporters-cheer-as-fire-rips-through-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris/</a></p>
<p></p>Insanity: Illinois Passes Law Banning Trump from 2020 Ballottag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-14:2833032:BlogPost:2133632019-04-14T17:21:32.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>I thought Democrats were really concerned about “voter suppression?”<br></br> I guess you can’t suppress people’s votes if you don’t give them the choice in the first place. Illinois is trying that out by passing a new law that forbids Trump from being on the 2020 ballot unless he releases five years of tax returns.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in Illinois have advanced legislation that would require President Trump to release five years of his tax returns in order to appear on the state’s 2020 presidential…</p>
<p>I thought Democrats were really concerned about “voter suppression?”<br/> I guess you can’t suppress people’s votes if you don’t give them the choice in the first place. Illinois is trying that out by passing a new law that forbids Trump from being on the 2020 ballot unless he releases five years of tax returns.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in Illinois have advanced legislation that would require President Trump to release five years of his tax returns in order to appear on the state’s 2020 presidential ballot.<br/> The Illinois state Senate voted 36-19 on Thursday to pass the bill, which will now move to the state’s Democrat-controlled House, according to Chicago radio station WBEZ.<br/> I can’t imagine why Illinois is such a dumpster fire of a state. I guess spending all your time on nonsense like this doesn’t leave much for actually doing positive things for your citizens.<br/> “If you want to run for vice president or president of the United States, hey, what’s wrong with providing your tax returns for the past five years?” state Sen. Tony Munoz (D) reportedly said while legislators debated the bill.<br/> “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you shouldn’t worry about anything,” he added.<br/> Actually, I think the constitution might have something to say about that. Democrats arbitrarily deciding to place limits on who can run for President isn’t supposed to be a thing. The constitution is clear that the only limitations are being a natural born citizen and over 35. If Illinois is allowed to do this, what stops Texas from banning the Democrat over whatever random issue they care about?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/04/13/632297/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/04/13/632297/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....It seems the State of Illinois is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.</p>
<p>It also seems the State is determined they know best who you must vote for. </p>
<p>Chalice, your State is showing how afraid they are of President Trump? Is there polling that President Trump has put the State in play? Maybe President Trump is leading?</p>
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<p></p>Ken Starr Omitted One Key Incident In His Final Report On Vince Foster’s Suicide; Hillary Clinton Had “Triggered” Ittag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-12:2833032:BlogPost:2131622019-04-12T19:30:00.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Many of us remember the strange circumstances surrounding the July 1993 suicide of Vince Foster. Foster, President Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel at that time, shot himself at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River.<br></br> Prior to joining the Clintons in Washington, Foster had been a partner at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he had been a colleague and a friend of Hillary Clinton’s.<br></br> Ken Starr spoke to former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal writer Ronald…</p>
<p>Many of us remember the strange circumstances surrounding the July 1993 suicide of Vince Foster. Foster, President Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel at that time, shot himself at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River.<br/> Prior to joining the Clintons in Washington, Foster had been a partner at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he had been a colleague and a friend of Hillary Clinton’s.<br/> Ken Starr spoke to former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal writer Ronald Kessler last weekend at the 2019 Annapolis Book Festival. Starr admitted that he had omitted from his final report on Foster’s suicide, one major event that had occurred the week before he took his own life.<br/> During a White House meeting on her health care proposal, Hillary Clinton had “attacked and humiliated Foster in front of other aides.” Although an earlier FBI investigation had concluded that Hillary had “triggered” Foster’s suicide, Starr told Kessler he excluded this information from his final report in order to spare her feelings.<br/> Starr said “he ‘did not want to inflict further pain’ on Hillary by revealing that her humiliation of Foster a week before he took his own life pushed him over the edge.”</p>
<p>Kessler spoke to former FBI agent Coy Copeland and former FBI supervisory agent Jim Clemente, both of whom had participated in the investigation of Foster’s death. Kessler was told that “Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and ridiculed him in front of his peers. During the White House meeting, Hillary continued to humiliate Foster mercilessly.”<br/> Copeland said, “Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting. She told him he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.”<br/> Clemente said, “Hillary went so far as to blame Foster for all the Clintons’ problems and to accuse him of failing them…Foster was profoundly depressed, but Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly embarrassed him in front of others. Hillary blamed him for failed nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front of his White House colleagues, ”You’re not protecting us” and ”You have failed us.” That was the final blow.”<br/> The FBI agents told Kessler, that following Hillary’s attack, “Foster’s behavior changed dramatically. Those who knew Foster said his voice sounded strained, he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished. At times, Foster teared up. He talked of feeling trapped.”<br/> Copeland and Clemente described the events of the week preceding Foster’s death to Kessler.<br/> On Tuesday, July 13, 1993, while having dinner with his wife Lisa, Foster broke down and began to cry. He said he was considering resigning.<br/> That weekend, Foster and his wife drove to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where they saw their friends, Michael Cardoza and Webster Hubbell, and their wives.<br/> ‘They played tennis, they swam, and they said he sat in a lawn chair, just kind of sat there in the lawn chair,’ Copeland said. ‘They said that just was not Vince. He loved to play tennis, and he was always sociable, but he just sat over in the corner by himself and stared off into space, reading a book.’<br/> Two days later, Foster left the White House parking lot at 1.10pm. The precise time when he shot himself could not be pinpointed. After Park Police found his body, they notified the U.S. Secret Service at 8.30pm.<br/> Based on what ‘dozens’ of others who had contact with Foster after that meeting told the agents, while Foster was already depressed, ‘The put-down that she gave him in that big meeting just pushed him over the edge,’ Copeland said. ‘It was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.’<br/> No one can explain a suicide in rational terms. But the FBI investigation concluded that it was Hillary’s vilification of Foster in front of other White House aides — coming on top of his ongoing depression — that triggered the White House official’s suicide about a week later, Copeland and Clemente both say.<br/> Starr issued a 38,000-word report, along with a separate psychologist’s report on the factors that contributed to Foster’s suicide. Yet Starr never mentioned the meeting with Hillary, leaving out the fact that his own investigation had found that Hillary’s rage had led to her friend’s suicide.</p>
<p>Starr’s investigation of Foster’s suicide was part of the larger probe of the Clintons’ investment in the Whitewater real estate development which ended in 1998. Hillary Clinton had just endured the Monica Lewinsky scandal and all that followed. Perhaps Starr’s omission makes more sense in that context.<br/> Still, none of us who have witnessed the past 25 years of Hillary Clinton’s cruelty, duplicity and insolence on the national stage have any trouble imagining the scene inside that July 1993 White House meeting. She was a predator then and she continues to be.<br/> The saddest part is that, even if Starr had included the meeting in his report, she would have rationalized it away as “just politics.”<br/> I doubt very much if she would have felt any personal responsibility for it.<br/> Sociopaths generally aren’t capable of empathy.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/04/11/ken-starr-left-one-important-thing-final-report-vince-fosters-suicide-hillary-clinton-triggered/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/04/11/ken-starr-left-one-important-thing-final-report-vince-fosters-suicide-hillary-clinton-triggered/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....I remember this so called suicide. The question still remains as to why the first person that found Foster's body didn't see any weapon in his hand? Then when he came back there was a pistol in his hand? Normally in a pistol suicide the pistol does not stay in the person's hand. Mrs. Foster couldn't ID the pistol as his. Why were there carpet fibers in his coat consistent with a body being dragged on a carpeted floor? Later it was learned that Mr. Foster had accumulated a large amount of frequent flier miles flying back and forth to Switzerland for day trips. Why did he do those trips? Hiding Clinton's ill gotten gains? </p>
<p>There will always be unanswered questions into Mr. Foster's death. Mr. Starr doesn't answer most of the hard questions. </p>“I’m Not Bluffing”: Colorado Sheriff Won’t Enforce New Gun Lawtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-04:2833032:BlogPost:2133572019-04-04T23:04:04.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>We’ve seen it in New Mexico already, and now we’re seeing it in Colorado. Local counties are declaring themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries and refusing to enforce statewide gun laws that violate due process and make a joke out of the Constitution. In remarks to CNN this week, Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams said that even if the Colorado legislature passes a new “red flag” bill, he won’t have his deputies enforce the law. <br></br>“It’s a matter of doing what’s right,” he told the network.…</p>
<p>We’ve seen it in New Mexico already, and now we’re seeing it in Colorado. Local counties are declaring themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries and refusing to enforce statewide gun laws that violate due process and make a joke out of the Constitution. In remarks to CNN this week, Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams said that even if the Colorado legislature passes a new “red flag” bill, he won’t have his deputies enforce the law. <br/>“It’s a matter of doing what’s right,” he told the network. <br/>The bill will almost certainly pass, unfortunately. Last week, the gun bill passed the state Senate, and it will almost certainly pass the House and be on the governor’s desk by the end of the week. If enacted into law, it would give deputies and even random private citizens the right to argue that someone’s guns should be taken away from them because they pose a danger to themselves or others. As long as they can prove that assertion with “a preponderance of the evidence” – meaning, a much lower burden of proof than “beyond a reasonable doubt” – cops will be expected to take the individual’s guns for as long as a year. <br/>Proponents of the law say that quick, decisive action such as this can keep dangerous individuals from harming others. Critics say it is a mockery of the Second Amendment and could even inspire greater violence than what is theoretically being avoided. They point to a 2018 case in Baltimore where a man “became irate” when police showed up at his door with an order to give up his weapons. Ultimately, police in that case were forced to kill the individual in a standoff.</p>
<p><br/>“Going in and taking their guns and leaving the scene – I can’t see how that makes them less of a risk,” Reams mused. “It just takes one tool away.” <br/>But for liberal Democrats, taking away that one tool is all that matters.<br/>“The gun ban lobbies are getting more and more extreme and aggressive,” lamented constitutional law expert David Kopel. <br/>Reams and Weld County are not the only ones who have opposed the bill. More than half of Colorado’s 64 counties have come out in official opposition to the legislation, and a handful have gone as far as to declare themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries in defiance of what very well could soon be law. <br/>Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser released a statement saying that he is “confident that when and if the time comes, all law enforcement officials will follow the rule of law.” <br/>Perhaps, but following the rule of law in this case may mean something different to sheriffs who believe this is a matter of constitutional overreach. For his part, Sheriff Reams says that if Democrats expect him to go with the flow, they’ve got another think coming. <br/>“I’ve explained that time and time again,” he said. “I’m not bluffing.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themadpatriots.com/freedom-news/im-not-bluffing-colorado-sheriff-wont-enforce-new-gun-law/">http://www.themadpatriots.com/freedom-news/im-not-bluffing-colorado-sheriff-wont-enforce-new-gun-law/</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....It is up to our Sheriffs all across this nation to not enforce unconstitutional laws passed by idiots.</p>Sen. Cotton Seeks IRS Investigation Into SPLC’s Tax-Exempt Statustag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-04:2833032:BlogPost:2134562019-04-04T03:22:41.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Cotton sent letter to IRS Tuesday urging immediate action.<br></br>BY: Joe Schoffstall</p>
<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is seeking an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to a letter provided to the Washington Free Beacon.<br></br>Cotton sent the letter to the IRS April 2 and urges an investigation into whether the SPLC "should retain its classification as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization" amid news reports that have verified the…</p>
<p>Cotton sent letter to IRS Tuesday urging immediate action.<br/>BY: Joe Schoffstall</p>
<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is seeking an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to a letter provided to the Washington Free Beacon.<br/>Cotton sent the letter to the IRS April 2 and urges an investigation into whether the SPLC "should retain its classification as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization" amid news reports that have verified the "long-established fact that the SPLC regularly engages in defamation of its political opponents."<br/>The SPLC has garnered massive amounts of cash for its operations. The Washington Free Beacon reported in early March that the group has $518 million in assets, with $120 million now offshore.<br/>"The business model has paid well," Cotton writes in the letter. "The SPLC has accrued more than $500 million in assets. According to the group's most recent financial statement, it holds $121 million offshore in non-U.S. equity funds. The SPLC uses these assets to pay its executives lavish salaries far higher than the comparable household average."</p>
<p>Cotton also references a CNN report that states the organization "suffers from a pervasive racism culture." Its co-founder, Morris Dees, was recently fired over inner turmoil among its treatment of its workers. Richard Cohen, the group's president, has also stepped down.<br/>"Based on these reports, and in the interest of protecting taxpayer dollars from a racist and sexist slush fund devoted to defamation, I believe that the SPLC's conduct warrants a serious and thorough investigation."<br/>"Engaging in systematic defamation is not a tax-exempt purpose: Federal law requires nonprofits classified as 501(c)(3) organizations to comply with IRS guidelines and have a "tax-exempt purpose," Cotton writes.<br/>Cotton goes on to speak of the SPLC's "hate map", which regularly lists mainstream conservative groups including the Family Research Council, the Alliance for Defending Freedom, and the Center for Immigration Studies alongside actual racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.<br/>"The SPLC operates a tax-sheltered slush fund to enrich its leadership: In addition to failing to have a tax-exempt purpose, the SPLC's peculiar financial situation warrants your attention," the letter reads. "Federal law prohibits tax-exempt organizations from inuring to the benefit of any private individual. Yet the SPLC has accrued more than $500 million in assets as of October 31, 2018. Reportedly and inexplicably, $121 million of these assets are parked in offshore accounts."<br/>Cotton finishes by saying its "shady financial practices" have earned the organization an "F" rating from Charity Watch and calling for an investigation into the group after a flood of recent reports.</p>
<p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/sen-cotton-seeks-irs-investigation-into-splcs-tax-exempt-status/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=af3147e639-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_02_07_58_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-af3147e639-46096201">https://freebeacon.com/politics/sen-cotton-seeks-irs-investigation-into-splcs-tax-exempt-status/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=af3147e639-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_02_07_58_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-af3147e639-46096201</a></p>
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<p>The SPLC has with the influx of money devolved into a hate group themselves. Plus the execs fund themselves a lavish life style of the rich and famous. At the same time they ignore real problems and focus on trashing conservative groups falsely as hate groups.</p>
<p>I hope Senator Cotton can force the IRS to revoke SPLC's 501C-3 status.</p>
<p>But since the IRS was used by the Usurper to withhold tax status for TEA Party groups, the Senator may well have a hard fight with the deep state that infests the IRS.</p>CNN Host Asks If FBI Should Have ‘Shut Down’ Trump Supporters Chanting ‘Lock Her Up’tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-04-04:2833032:BlogPost:2132582019-04-04T01:45:36.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>BY: David Rutz</p>
<p>CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called "lock her up" chants by Donald Trump supporters "hate speech" in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had "shut down that language" in his capacity as FBI Director at the time.<br></br>Amanpour recounted the frequent chants at Trump 2016 campaign rallies about imprisoning Hillary Clinton for her perceived crimes and wondered if they should have been legal, but Comey responded it was not the role of government officials…</p>
<p>BY: David Rutz</p>
<p>CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called "lock her up" chants by Donald Trump supporters "hate speech" in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had "shut down that language" in his capacity as FBI Director at the time.<br/>Amanpour recounted the frequent chants at Trump 2016 campaign rallies about imprisoning Hillary Clinton for her perceived crimes and wondered if they should have been legal, but Comey responded it was not the role of government officials to censor that speech.<br/>"Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it's kind of hate speech? Should that have been allowed?" she asked in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller.<br/>"That's not a role for government to play," Comey replied. "The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it's misleading and it's demagoguery. The people who should have shut it down were Republicans, who understand the rule of law and the values that they claim to stand for. Shame on them, but it wasn't a role for government to play."</p>
<p>Trump fired Comey in 2017, and the president has since called him an "untruthful slime ball" as well as a "liar and a leaker" for discussing their private conversations. Comey likened Trump to a mob boss in his book A Higher Loyalty, calling him morally unfit to lead and a serial fabulist.<br/>Comey, a former Republican, has called on Americans to vote Trump out of office in favor of the Democratic candidate in 2020. He posted an April Fool's joke about running for president on Monday.<br/>Trump's firing of Comey has been front-and-center of Democratic accusations that Trump obstructed justice in the federal investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey said Attorney General William Barr deserved the benefit of the doubt over what the Justice Department ultimately redacts from the Robert Mueller report.<br/>"Give him a chance to show us what he feels like he can't show us," he said. "I have to imagine that former [FBI Director Robert] Mueller wrote the report with an eye towards it being public some day, so I can't imagine a lot needs to be cut out of it. But let's wait and see. The attorney general deserves that chance."<br/>Barr summarized Mueller's report as not coming to a conclusion on obstruction and saying there was no conspiracy between Trump's campaign and the Russians, often referred to colloquially as collusion. Mueller also said his office would bring no further indictments.</p>
<p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-host-asks-if-fbi-should-have-shut-down-trump-supporters-chanting-lock-her-up/">https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-host-asks-if-fbi-should-have-shut-down-trump-supporters-chanting-lock-her-up/</a></p>
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<p>Me Here.....Here we go again with the hate of liberals. To them we shouldn't ever be allowed to speak. Only their views should be heard by all. Free speech, not if you disagree with them!</p>Mueller, the Real Story!tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-24:2833032:BlogPost:2130262019-03-24T03:14:55.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Story by: SGT William A. Geresy (ret)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patriot’s Heart has been investigating Mueller’s investigation into President Trump. Now that Mueller has finished, we can report what really happened.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mueller was told to find the collusion with Russia by President Trump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mueller started drilling for collusion by President Trump…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Story by: SGT William A. Geresy (ret)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patriot’s Heart has been investigating Mueller’s investigation into President Trump. Now that Mueller has finished, we can report what really happened.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mueller was told to find the collusion with Russia by President Trump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mueller started drilling for collusion by President Trump with the Russians. After a month he found nothing. He was told to keep drilling. It is down there. It just has to be.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After three months and nothing, Mueller reported that. Rep. Maxine Waters told him to keep drilling. You must be so close. You can’t stop now. We must impeach 45!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After six months and nothing, Mueller again reported nothing found. Senator Schumer told him to keep drilling. You must be right on top of it. We just have to remove President Trump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 9 months of drilling and still nothing he reported nothing found. CNN told him to keep drilling. We have just got to have the greatest news story in our history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 12 months of hitting nothing, Mueller reported that it just doesn’t seem to be there. Rachel Maddow told Mueller that he just has to be so close. This is the story that will destroy Fox News. We must have that story!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 15 months and nothing, Mueller wanted to finally quit drilling. Hillary Clinton told him to keep drilling. There is no way I could have lost to that idiot Trump. The Russians had to have helped Trump cheat. Cheating is what I do best. So I know a cheater when I see one and Trump is a cheater!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 18 months and still nothing, Mueller was growing ever more frustrated. There isn’t anything to be found. The DNC told him to keep going. We must have the power to undo all the good that President Trump has done. We just can’t have happy prosperous Americans. We can’t win that way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally, Mueller hit something. All were so happy that it just has to be the collusion they have been drilling and drilling for. The left wing media started to report that President Trump is guilty of collusion and treason. Then the truth came out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What they had hit wasn’t collusion. They had just goosed old Mick Dundee! We all know you just can’t goose Crocodile Dundee and get away with it!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So that is why Mueller has ended his drilling and the investigation.</span></p>FEC Complaint: Bernie Breaking Federal Law by Employing Foreign Nationaltag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-22:2833032:BlogPost:2131092019-03-22T19:49:11.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p>Undocumented immigrant in key campaign role <br></br>BY: Brent Scher</p>
<p>The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is violating federal election law by employing foreign nationals in advisory campaign positions, according to a newly filed complaint to the Federal Election Commission obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon.<br></br>The complaint points to the employment of three individuals, including Maria Belén Sisa, an illegal immigrant from Argentina who is in the United States under the…</p>
<p>Undocumented immigrant in key campaign role <br/>BY: Brent Scher</p>
<p>The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is violating federal election law by employing foreign nationals in advisory campaign positions, according to a newly filed complaint to the Federal Election Commission obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon.<br/>The complaint points to the employment of three individuals, including Maria Belén Sisa, an illegal immigrant from Argentina who is in the United States under the protections of DACA and has been named deputy national press secretary for Bernie 2020. Sisa, who collected a salary from the Bernie 2016 campaign and also made financial contributions to it, recently made headlines when she questioned whether American Jews, including her own boss Sanders, were loyal to the United States.<br/>Both the work for the campaign and contributions are "direct and serious violations" of federal election law, the complaint argues.<br/>Foreign nationals are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in the decision-making process of any person with regard to election-related activities, according to the FEC. Included in this group of foreign nationals are all immigrants not lawfully admitted as permanent residents.</p>
<p>The complaint, filed on Thursday afternoon by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, argues that Sisa's current position on the campaign, due to its strategic nature, is a clear violation of this prohibition.<br/>"Senator Sanders and Bernie 2020 is permitting a foreign national, Ms. Sisa, to serve in an advisory position which allows her to directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process of persons with regard to election-related activities in violation of FEC regulations," it argues.<br/>The complaint also points to the 2016 campaign, which employed Sisa as well as two other foreign nationals, Erika Andiola and Cesar Vargas, in advisory campaign positions, it says.<br/>Like Sisa, both Vargas, the campaign's national Latino outreach strategist, and Andiola, its press secretary for Latino outreach, were salaried employees of Bernie 2016. They were also both well-known immigration activists open about their status as Mexican immigrants and DACA recipients.<br/>"Due to the high profile of Cesar Vargas, Erika Andiola, and Maria Belén Sisa as leading activists in the undocumented community, there is reason to believe that respondents are ‘foreign nationals' within the meaning of 52 U.S.C. § 301219b)(2), and in violation of 11 C.F.R. § 110.20 (i) and A.O. 2004-26, directly or indirectly participated in the decision-making process of persons with regard to the election-related activities of Bernie 2016," the complaint says.<br/>"There is reason to believe, having previously employed Ms. Sisa, that Bernie 2020 is currently, and knowingly, permitting a ‘foreign national' … to directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process of persons with regard to the election-related activities of Bernie 2020."<br/>The complaint calls for an "immediate investigation" of both campaigns and for action to be taken to halt the violations.<br/>"The Commission should determine and impose appropriate sanctions for any and all violations," it says. "Further, the Commission should enjoin respondents from any future violations and impose any necessary and appropriate remedies to ensure respondents' future compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act."</p>
<p>Shaun McCutcheon, who filed the complaint for the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, said he expects any foreign nationals employed by the campaign to lose their job if the FEC finds it was in violation of the law.<br/>"The involvement of foreigners, especially with all that went on during the 2016 election, can't be allowed in our elections," McCutcheon said.<br/>The Sanders campaign paid a $14,500 fine to the FEC last year after it was caught accepting foreign contributions from the Australian Labor Party during the 2016 Democratic primary.<br/>Former president Barack Obama's actions on DACA did not give recipients a path to obtaining permanent residence in the United States.<br/>The Sanders campaign did not respond to request for comment on Sisa's immigration status.</p>
<p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/fec-complaint-bernie-breaking-election-law-by-employing-foreign-national/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=8fab9c3c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_21_09_16_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8fab9c3c3a-46096201">https://freebeacon.com/politics/fec-complaint-bernie-breaking-election-law-by-employing-foreign-national/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=8fab9c3c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_21_09_16_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8fab9c3c3a-46096201</a></p>
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<p>Me Here....Now wait just a darned minute here! Isn't this collusion with a foreign government to win an election? If so should Senator Sanders be disqualified from running in 2020 and be removed from the US Senate?</p>
<p>I remember all the fuss when it was learned that illegal aliens were hired at a Trump Hotel. </p>
<p>Isn't this more serious? I think so. </p>
<p>But I am sure the extreme liberal media will completely ignore this story. It doesn't fit in with their DNC talking points!</p>Beto Was 'Born to Run'?tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-15:2833032:BlogPost:2126122019-03-15T01:55:29.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The clown car that is the Democrat 2020 presidential field just added a new member — Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke. The former punk-band bassist, drunk-driving arrestee, and three-term representative from Texas rose to heartthrob status during his losing bid to take Ted Cruz's Senate seat in 2018. O'Rourke has clearly bought into the hype about himself. Indeed, he coordinated his official announcement this morning with yesterday's release of a nearly…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The clown car that is the Democrat 2020 presidential field just added a new member — Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke. The former punk-band bassist, drunk-driving arrestee, and three-term representative from Texas rose to heartthrob status during his losing bid to take Ted Cruz's Senate seat in 2018. O'Rourke has clearly bought into the hype about himself. Indeed, he coordinated his official announcement this morning with yesterday's release of a nearly 9,000-word hagiography in none other than the aptly named Vanity Fair, in which he admitted, "You can probably tell that I want to run. I do. I think I'd be good at it. ... I want to be in it. Man, I'm just born to be in it."</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well, he's got the ego to go toe to toe with Donald Trump, that's for sure.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In his announcement video, O'Rourke pledged to tackle "the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate." And in a bid to distinguish himself from a crowded field of socialists, O'Rourke insists, "I'm a capitalist. I don't see how we're able to meet any of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country without, in part, harnessing the power of the market." It's the "harnessing" part that should be most worrisome to Americans.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Besides the pure force of his ego, how will O'Rourke, a privileged white man who married into money, handle the biggest problem most Democrats see in our country — white men? "The government at all levels is overly represented by white men," he said. "That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man." Not to worry; he'll just hire the right people, he says. "So if I were to run, I think it's just so important that those who would comprise my team looked like this country. If I were to run, if I were to win, that my administration looks like this country. It's the only way I know to meet that challenge. But," he continued, "I totally understand people who will make a decision based on the fact that almost every single one of our presidents has been a white man, and they want something different for this country. And I think that's a very legitimate basis upon which to make a decision."</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Race is a "very legitimate" basis to decide things in a nation where "all men are created equal." Got it.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For a better sense of what Beto brings to the table, we'll leave you with two things. First, the former representative of El Paso said last month, "Absolutely, I'd take the wall down." What a contrast with President Trump that would be. Far more alarming, however, is O'Rourke's contemptuous view of the Constitution. "I think that's the question of the moment: Does this still work?" he said of the Constitution. Tearing down the wall is bad enough. The next Democrat president, whether O'Rourke or any of the others, would immediately set about to continue Barack Obama's work of tearing down the Constitution.</span></p>
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<p>Me here....I think Beto is today's flash in the pan in the ever growing pool of fools in the Democrat Party running for President. We will see if Beto is even talked about come the 1st of May. Or will he be about a memory like ice on the Great lakes.</p>
<p>Beto is a failure looking to be an even greater failure.</p>Broken Promises Part II: The VA Strikes Backtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-11:2833032:BlogPost:2127162019-03-11T17:10:28.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Several weeks ago, I chronicled here my yearlong battle with the VA (an oxymoronic statement, if there ever was one) over the lung damage and related ear and balance issues I sustained in Fallujah, Iraq, from 2006 to 2007. When I published that article, I was still optimistic. I naively thought that based upon the twelve years of medical records I submitted, the fact that I jumped through every bureaucratic hoop and leapt over every infuriating hurdle the VA…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Several weeks ago, I chronicled here my yearlong battle with the VA (an oxymoronic statement, if there ever was one) over the lung damage and related ear and balance issues I sustained in Fallujah, Iraq, from 2006 to 2007. When I published that article, I was still optimistic. I naively thought that based upon the twelve years of medical records I submitted, the fact that I jumped through every bureaucratic hoop and leapt over every infuriating hurdle the VA built at every step of the process, and the fact that I chronicled in fact-based detail my issues, that someone at the VA would recognize the legitimacy of this debilitating condition. Boy, was I wrong.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Out of the blue, I received an anonymous denial letter rejecting my Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (ETD) and the most serious issue I have: the reactive airway disease type of COPD that literally knocks me out of commission any time I get sick. When I read the letter, I was filled with a frustrating, hopeless rage at the realization that the VA – and by default the federal government that I swore to protect – didn’t care about my plight. Does the VA think I’m making all of this up, that it’s psychosomatic? I thought in between rants to my wife, who can attest to what I go through when I’m sick; I was down for almost the entire month of February this year. Thanks, Iraq. But it wasn’t even the denial that was the worst part. It was the misleading, disorganized, and bumbling way that I’ve been treated for the past year. And did I mention that the VA is the one that first diagnosed me with this disease in 2010? Yes. You read that right.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the past year, every time I spoke to someone at the VA, I was assured that I would get a chance to speak to the final adjudicator who would reach out to me before a decision was made. Nope. Guess again. The last person I spoke to was the doctor who did my physical evaluation and who also told me she’d made a recommendation to the VA. She reiterated that I’d hear from the VA before a decision was made. I guess the VA misled her, too. But let’s get past the decision. Let’s get to the fun part: the logic behind the denial that would make Joseph Heller proud.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Apparently, I’m receiving 10% disability for “exercise-induced asthma,” which the VA is stating can also be “claimed as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” as if one could be swapped out for the other, although I don’t remember ever claiming exercise-induced asthma. Maybe that’s VA code for “Your lungs are really jacked up, and we don’t know what else to call it.” But that’s highly improbable since I was not diagnosed with reactive airway disease until 10 November 2010 when I saw a VA pulmonologist on the Marine Corps Birthday. I remember that visit explicitly because of the important of that day. But what’s even more confusing is that I have a letter dated 26 April 2018 denying my claim for COPD, stating, “We determined the…condition is not related to your military service.” The two positions are incongruous, but yet here they are, and the VA is telling me I’m receiving 10% for a condition that was not diagnosed until after a date they’d already decided to grant me 10% for that same condition under a different name. That’s cool. I dig time travel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But wait. What about increasing the rating to reflect the severity since my condition has worsened over the past twelve years, you might ask? Between my lungs and related ETD – I once read a blogger state, “I’d rather have an STD than ETD;” you have no idea how true that is – I’ve lost hundreds of hours of work, several speaking engagements, and several book tour events because I can’t fly. My condition is triggered when I’m sick, as I outlined previously, and this is where the VA gets to channel its inner Legal Eagle. When I’m healthy, I’m good to go, no issues. Can you guess when I took the pulmonary function tests as part of this claim? When I wasn’t sick. I explained this to the technician, who administered the test, as well as to the doctor. Both told me, maybe as part of their pre-programmed responses to agree with whatever I said, that a lot of these pulmonary issues only show up when triggered by illness. The doctor said that the claims are even evaluated based on “the symptoms” the patient describes, especially when backed up by medical records, of which I have plenty, by actual doctors who didn’t stay in a Holiday Inn last night. Unfortunately, I don’t think the adjudicator got that memo, as both the COPD component and the Eustachian Tube Dysfunction were denied because of the test results. I guess the VA is a stickler for the rules and interprets them in a way to preserve the VA Empire rather than in favor of the veteran.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are 170,000 veterans in the Burn Pit and Open Hazards Registry, and we can’t all be crazy or making up these medical conditions. Trust me. I’d give up every cent of my disability to make this go away, but the reality is that I’ll have this condition for life. Unfortunately, if I or any other veteran can’t definitively prove it, as far as the VA is concerned, it didn’t happen. The burden is on us. The VA has the ultimate Eddie Murphy defense as to who’s responsible for the health care costs of these illnesses – wasn’t me.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But this fight isn’t over yet. I still have the appeals process, which will likely take another eighteen months of aggravation since the VA moves at the speed of a Boston Big Dig. I’m not hopeful, and I have no expectations, but I’ll play it out until the very end, if only to continue to raise awareness of this issue, which brings me to the last point.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Even though I have a voice here in this column or when I do media interviews or book tour events, how many of the other 170,000 veterans can do the same? Fortunately, I read here that a California Congressman Raul Ruiz (D) is proposing legislation “to improve tracking of troops’ exposure to toxic chemicals from war zone burn pits.” That’s a start, but it’s not going to help all of us in the short term in getting our issues recognized and included in our disability ratings. Then again, I shouldn’t expect much – it took the VA until 1991 to recognize the problems caused by Agent Orange in Vietnam.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I also reached out to Maryland Senator Ben Cardin’s (D) office, and his staff is looking into the issue from a legislative angle and is aware of my battle with the VA. I even offered to testify about this fiasco, although I’m not sure lawmakers want to hear the direct, honest, and opinionated testimony of an angry former Marine frustrated with the system. Regardless, Senator Cardin’s office has been helpful, and I appreciate it, truly. Some issues transcend political and partisan differences.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the meantime, I’ll continue to raise awareness of this issue because someone has to and because our government has a moral and ethical responsibility to take care of its service members when they return from a combat zone or overseas deployment where they were exposed to things like burn pits and other hazards. Our military deserves better than this. We are trained to fight the enemy, which should not be the VA when we redeploy home. That’s for the politicians, not the warriors who dutifully carry out the orders they issue. Then again, I’m a former Marine, and I like to fight. So fight I will. Semper Fidelis.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/matthewbetley/2019/03/11/broken-promises-part-ii-the-va-strikes-back-n2542873?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=03/11/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958">https://townhall.com/columnists/matthewbetley/2019/03/11/broken-promises-part-ii-the-va-strikes-back-n2542873?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=03/11/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958</a></p>
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<p>Me here....Sadly despite all President Trump has tried to do to reform the VA, it stubbornly refuses to change. I had a dear friend that fought the VA for years due to health problems traced to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Despite two court orders, heart attacks, heart transplantS, and more. Yes he had two heart transplants. Yet despite all this the VA refused to give him 100% disability. </p>
<p>Now for the people that back Medicare For All, This is what you will get, VA for all. That will mean a disaster for America. You will get health care if you can travel hundreds of miles. It is about using you to justify an ever growing unresponsive government bureaucracy. You justify their existence. You are a pawn.</p>‘Pawn Stars’ Host Blasts Socialism: ‘There’s No Point in Working Hard’tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-09:2833032:BlogPost:2124172019-03-09T15:57:15.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While some Democratic politicians are trying to convince the nation there should only be two classes — you, and those in government who control you (here, here, and here) — Pawn Stars host Rick Harrison remains unconvinced.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaking on Fox News program Outnumbered, Rick said he knows the drill, and he wants young people to understand it, too:</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“[I] tell college kids… ‘Next time…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While some Democratic politicians are trying to convince the nation there should only be two classes — you, and those in government who control you (here, here, and here) — Pawn Stars host Rick Harrison remains unconvinced.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaking on Fox News program Outnumbered, Rick said he knows the drill, and he wants young people to understand it, too:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“[I] tell college kids… ‘Next time you’re in college and talking to these other students that love socialism, just tell them, “Let’s do the tenets of socialism.”‘”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">His test is simple, yet a fantastic, real-world example of what happens when the playing field is, according to many on the Left, leveled:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Next time we have a big test, we’re just going to average out all the scores and everyone gets the same, same score on the test. See how hard everyone tries next week.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Right — it’s common sense. People do things when they have incentive, and capitalism allows one to rise according to one’s commitment to actions which can garner reward. Take away the reward — and, therefore, the incentive — and you get a bunch of people who don’t care:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“[The class experiment] will slow down the work to where everyone gets an ‘F’ in the class. There’s no point in working hard.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Looking to 2020, talk of socialism in the DNC looks to be set at the bottom of a year-and-eight-month-long ramp.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As reported by Fox:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Businessman Andrew Yang, a Democratic presidential candidate, is proposing universal basic income, giving everyone over 18 a stipend of $1,000 monthly.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“This is not socialism. This is capitalism where income doesn’t start at zero,” Yang told CBS News.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Uhhh…</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can someone get Yang an abacus?</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaking at CPAC last week, Rick waxed more philosophic on the Nazis’ favored system, related to drugs and Venezuela:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“It’s literally like heroin. The first shot is great. For a little bit, it’s wonderful, but then the rest of your life is a living hell. And that’s literally what the socialists are doing. Once you give someone something, it’s hard to take it away…then you get Venezuela.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to Venezuela’s use of Hitler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s preferred mode, children are selling sex. And straight men are selling gay sex (here).</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And Democrats are selling baloney. Because — in part — as Thomas Sowell pointed out recently, you can’t make people equal. See his brilliant explanation here.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And see goofiness all over the place, across the aisle.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-Alex</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2019/03/08/rick-warren-pawn-stars-fox-news-outnumbered-socialism-no-point-working-hard/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2019/03/08/rick-warren-pawn-stars-fox-news-outnumbered-socialism-no-point-working-hard/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here....Mr. Harrison is right. College kids live socialism until it would be applied to their grades. Then it is unfair that all would get the same result. The problem is those same kids can't understand that it would work the same way in the real world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Unions have the same problem. The union only recognizes seniority as the means to advance. If the person ahead of you is an idiot and you would be great at tthe new job, the idiot gets the job.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The military has the problem in a different way. If you are the greatest pilot, you will be rewarded with promotions. The next thing the great pilot gets to do is fly a desk and be buried in paperwork. While Joe average pilot from the same pilot training class is still happily flying his airplane.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wonder how these college kids would react if every player on their schools team got to play every position and the same number of minutes? Imagine the disaster that would be! This would be solicialism in sports. It would be fair to all. There would be no superstar on the team. I bet there would be a great many failures. You see kids, your sports team pactices capitalism. It isn't perfectly fair to each individual. It does create the best chance of success.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So no system is completely fair. Some though are greatly unfair. Those that profess equality result in the greatest failures.</span></p>
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<p></p>Adult Bully Removes Child's MAGA Hattag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-08:2833032:BlogPost:2127122019-03-08T16:55:21.000ZChalicehttp://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/Chalice
<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/another-adult-bully-leftist-attacks-child-in-trump-maga-hat-rips-it-off-his-head-video/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">HT Gateway Pundidt: </a></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/martin-county/gunnar-johansson-school-bus-video-shows-bus-aide-arguing-with-teen-pulling-trump-make-american-great-again-hat-off-his-head" rel="noopener" target="_blank">WPTV</a> "Surveillance video on a Martin County school bus shows a bus…</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/another-adult-bully-leftist-attacks-child-in-trump-maga-hat-rips-it-off-his-head-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HT Gateway Pundidt: </a></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/martin-county/gunnar-johansson-school-bus-video-shows-bus-aide-arguing-with-teen-pulling-trump-make-american-great-again-hat-off-his-head" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WPTV</a> "Surveillance video on a Martin County school bus shows a bus aide yelling at a student to take off a Trump hat, then grabbing it off of his head.</em></p>
<p><em>Now, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether the bus aide committed a crime.</em></p>
<p><em>Gunnar Johansson, 14, said this week, students were allowed to wear a hat to school if they made a donation to March of Dimes.</em></p>
<p><em>He decided to wear a Trump, Make America Great Again hat, “to show my pride in Trump America,” Johansson said.</em></p>
<p><em>He boarded his bus to Hidden Oaks Middle School, and within seconds, the bus aide can be heard talking to Johansson.</em></p>
<p><em>“Boy, if you don’t that that hat off this bus… take it off. Take that hat off… take that hat off…” the bus aide, who has not been identified, is heard saying.</em></p>
<p><em>“I was really confused, I was like ‘I can’t wear this?’ “Johansson said.</em></p>
<p><em>The bus aide is heard telling the teenager to put his hat in his backpack, and continuing to tell him to take it off.</em></p>
<p><em>“She, like, threatened me with a referral and threatened to turn the bus around. I said ‘write me up, I didn’t do anything wrong’, and then she yanked my hat off. It was crazy,” Johansson said.</em></p>
<p><em>He continued the bus ride without wearing his hat, though other students wearing hats were allowed to keep wearing them.</em></p>
<p><br/>From Sharon: The end of the raw video, the 14 year old boy was incredulous saying... <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanWPTV/status/1103875498474582016/video/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"I am trouble for that?</a> Are you serious?" And he is told he is in trouble.</p>
<p>The fact is the left has empowered the random 'Joe', from their public platform, that it is okay to assault people wearing #MAGA gear. We all know this. The impact of this strategy harms the freedom of speech and I pray that the independent flair within the American spirit causes for all Americans to know this is just not the right direction to take our country.</p>
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<p>My heart goes out to that kid, showing his good upbringing by balancing the situation with grace.</p>
<p></p>DNC: No Democratic primary debates for Fox Newstag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-07:2833032:BlogPost:2127102019-03-07T17:08:03.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eh. It’s a shame that Chris Wallace and Bret Baier have to lose out on an opportunity as sweet as this, but c’mon. This is a network that often operates in primetime as an arm of the White House comms team. The 9 p.m. guy talks to Trump regularly, has been described as his “shadow of chief staff,” and campaigned with him at a rally shortly before the midterms. The former president of the network works in the White House for Trump right now despite the fact that…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eh. It’s a shame that Chris Wallace and Bret Baier have to lose out on an opportunity as sweet as this, but c’mon. This is a network that often operates in primetime as an arm of the White House comms team. The 9 p.m. guy talks to Trump regularly, has been described as his “shadow of chief staff,” and campaigned with him at a rally shortly before the midterms. The former president of the network works in the White House for Trump right now despite the fact that he’s still receiving severance payments from Fox News. A former “Fox &amp; Friends” contributor was all set to be the president’s new ambassador to the UN until her nomination hit a snag. His son and namesake is an item with a former host of “The Five.” Just this week the New Yorker dropped a lengthy story about the “Fox News White House,” claiming that FNC had the Stormy Daniels story in 2016 but chose to bury it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s not a matter of Dems fearing that Wallace and Baier would turn a primary debate into some Hannityesque attack segment, I’m sure, but rather not wanting to reward an operation that’s effectively in a partnership with the man they’ll be facing next fall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In fact, the New Yorker piece contains a splashy allegation that has to do specifically with Fox, Trump, and presidential debates:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[A]t the debate in Cleveland, [Megyn] Kelly asked Trump a famously tough question. “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals,’ ” she said. Trump interrupted her with a snide quip: “Only Rosie O’Donnell!” The hall burst into laughter and applause…</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fox, however, may have given Trump a little help. A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won. The former aide says that the heads-up was passed on to Trump, who was the only candidate who said that he wouldn’t automatically support the Party’s nominee—a position that burnished his image as an outsider.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">True or false? It seems plausible given the intimacy of the Trump-Fox relationship (Ailes briefly advised Trump after leaving Fox News following his #MeToo crisis), which was probably enough for DNC chair Tom Perez to pull the plug.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including FOX News,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement Wednesday.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and FOX News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, FOX News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” the statement adds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fox replied:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate. They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What if they let Ocasio-Cortez fan Geraldo Rivera host it?</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nah, just wouldn’t work. Look at it from Perez’s perspective: Even if you had every assurance from Fox that Wallace and Baier would be fair (and they would be), the decision to hand a debate to Trump TV would infuriate many Dem voters and instigate threats of a boycott of some sort. The DNC has spent the past three years trying to heal the rift with the left over the preferential treatment given to Hillary over Bernie Sanders in 2016; choosing Fox for a debate would undo some of those repairs and start a round of “Why are we not punishing our enemies when we have the chance?” navel-gazing about Democratic wimpiness. In the end Perez would be forced to drop the Fox debate under pressure to placate those people. Anticipating all of that, he wisely decided not to bother going through a process that could only divide the base and end with him seeming weak and to rule out a Fox debate up front.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here’s your exit quotation. It’s nice of him to stick up for his buddies at Fox but this will not disabuse Perez and others of their suspicions that Trump and FNC are more of a partnership than a politician and a news network covering him at arm’s length. And needless to say, he won’t be skipping the gigantic audiences that presidential debates next year will bring him.</span></p>
<p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Donald J. Trump</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">✔</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">@realDonaldTrump</span></p>
<p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/06/dnc-no-primary-debates-fox-news/?utm_source=hadaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/06/dnc-no-primary-debates-fox-news/?utm_source=hadaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here....If the GOP had even thee slightest bit of a spine, they would reply that only FOX News will moderate our debates. President Trump will only debate if moderated by FOX News.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think president Trump has the courage to do this, but the GOP, NEVER!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I can only conclude that the DNC by excluding FOX News is paranoid that the FOX moderators will ask the hard questions. The DNC only wants softball lob questions asked.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So the only question left is will all the candidates be given the questions in advance or only the candidate favored by the party? Remember this was done with Hillary in the last go round! So I fully expect this to happen again!</span></p>The Most Interesting Colonel in the Worldtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-07:2833032:BlogPost:2127072019-03-07T03:40:34.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Happy Sunday! Here’s one for all my Infantry buddies..and a few other Military friends too. This is directed at military members, past, present and future. Marines, if you have difficulty understanding the big words, please consult your local Army Grunt.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He…is…The Most Interesting Colonel in the World.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When he wakes up in the morning, Russia raises its DEFCON level…just in…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Happy Sunday! Here’s one for all my Infantry buddies..and a few other Military friends too. This is directed at military members, past, present and future. Marines, if you have difficulty understanding the big words, please consult your local Army Grunt.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He…is…The Most Interesting Colonel in the World.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When he wakes up in the morning, Russia raises its DEFCON level…just in case.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He once fed an entire Theater Army with one case of MRE’s, then carried away 7 Fast Sealift Ships full of leftovers.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If he were to tell you, “Good Brief,” you would list it on your OER Support Form.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Council of Generals, convenes to establish consensus on issues, before briefing HIM.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He has his own entry in Jane’s Militaries of the World, #3 (because associating him with “#2” would be just…wrong).</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He doesn’t need STRATAIR to self-deploy to the AOR.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He has his own designated seat in the I-Bar</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">His Birthday is a designated Training Holiday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When it’s time for the Annual General Inspection, He inspects the IG.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When He runs “sick call,” troops are returned to full duty BEFORE they check in.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He is allowed to wear his headgear in the I-Bar.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On his first day of Ranger School, He wrote 3 Major Minus Spot Reports on the RI’s who attempted to disqualify his swim test, because he walked the length of the pool, ON TOP of the water.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He qualified, 50 out of 40 on the Rifle Qualification course…with 30 rounds.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He never has to add “Fire For Effect,” for all the Cannon Cockers know, ALL his fires, are for effect.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He once shot an azimuth, and wiped out an entire enemy battalion.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On the land nav course, True North aligns with him.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">His boots glisten so well, on his first day of Jump School, the Airborne Instructors…sent themselves to the Gig Pit.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">General Order #1 Doesn’t apply to him.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wherever he is, is a Designated Smoking Area.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the Pentagon, the Chief of Staff makes him coffee</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The IG files complaints…with him.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Chaplain cries on HIS shoulder.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He once ran the Yankee &amp; Furman Road, Daylight Land Nav courses…with no compass, map or GPS…at Night…and found all the points.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At levels above Corps, all staff routing slips, have his name on them as final “chop” before going to next higher level.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He declined the offer of playing Colonel Kirby in, “The Green Berets.” The part was only then offered to John Wayne. Side note: If he had taken the part, the outpost wouldn’t have been overrun; PeterSan wouldn’t have died and there would be no “John Wayne Hill” at Ft Benning.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At formal functions, the men propose toasts to HIM…and the LADIES respond, “HEAR! HEAR!”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He is…The Most Interesting Colonel in the World</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Stay Combat Ready My Friends</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.redstate.com/darth641/2019/03/03/interesting-colonel-world/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://www.redstate.com/darth641/2019/03/03/interesting-colonel-world/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He Here.....With all the craziness, we need some humor! When we can no longer laugh, we are in HUGE trouble!</span></p>
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<p></p>Martina Learns That Nothing Short of Total Surrender Will Appease Transgender Activists (UPDATE: Martina Responds)tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-07:2833032:BlogPost:2125972019-03-07T03:32:47.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She and I don’t agree on much, but on this we have common ground.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">——————————</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tennis great Martina Navratilova is learning the hard way that apologizing to militant transgender activists is not – and will never be – enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Sunday, Navratilova used her personal website to address the recent controversies surrounding comments she’s…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She and I don’t agree on much, but on this we have common ground.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">——————————</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tennis great Martina Navratilova is learning the hard way that apologizing to militant transgender activists is not – and will never be – enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Sunday, Navratilova used her personal website to address the recent controversies surrounding comments she’s made about the unfairness of men getting to compete as women in women’s sports. She wrote:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What I really wanted to do was try to open up the debate about equality and fairness in relation to transgender participation in women’s sport. There were too many voices that were silenced and shamed into submission and that is not right. My aim was to encourage a more scientific, rather than emotional, conversation and to search for a solution that would work better than current arrangements.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was motivated by concern about the future of women’s sport and my worry that by trying to be fair and inclusive for one group, others can be adversely affected, that eliminating one kind of discrimination can inadvertently give rise to another.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know that my use of the word ‘cheat’ caused particular offence among the transgender community. I’m sorry for that because I certainly was not suggesting that transgender athletes in general are cheats. I attached the label to a notional case in which someone cynically changes gender, perhaps temporarily, to gain a competitive advantage. We should not be blind to the possibility and some of these rules are making that possible and legal. The context may be different, but the case of Lance Armstrong, and the harm he did to his sport, is surely instructive.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She went on to note the rationale behind her belief that men should not be allowed to compete against women in sporting events:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is obvious that men have certain inherent physiological advantages over women. These include height, weight, bone-density and muscularity. These advantages play a different role depending on the sport, with power-lifting being the biggest and most obvious advantage. Can we make sure those advantages are nullified so that women who have transitioned from men have the same level of physical capability they would have had if they been born female? Clearly, we can’t, because you cannot lose those extra inches of height (five inches on average) no matter what you do; some advantages of weight and muscle built up over time are also likely to remain, so to what acceptable degree should they disappear?</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What she didn’t posit were actual solutions that would satisfy both sides because for one side – the transgender side – nothing less than total surrender to their demands will work.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seriously. It’s reminiscent of mafia-style “with us or you’re the enemy” tactics that should have no place in this debate. Nevertheless, they are because extremist left wing groups like Human Rights Campaign and the ACLU get large chunks of money for stirring the pot on this subject, and keeping it alive keeps money flooding into their coffers, and the champagne flowing.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not only that, but Democrats view divisive social issues like these as “winning” issues at the ballot box because they motivate their base voters to turn out. Follow the money.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Outsports writer Dawn Ennis responded to Navratilova by likening the legendary LGBTQ rights activist to …. Joseph Goebbels:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The transgender problem”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Nazis had “The Jewish Question,” and history records the horror which its leaders called the “Final Solution.” Navratilova treads a very dangerous line in asking if this issue of inclusion should be called a name that’s not so far off from Joseph Goebbels’ nomenclature.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seriously? Is this what passes for actual debate at Outsports? You really cannot rationalize with rabid fanatics who play the Hitler card every time someone makes a valid argument that hits too close to home.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When a woman who is viewed as a pioneer on women’s and LGBTQ rights gets excommunicated from the club for openly discussing some inconvenient truths on how men’s and women’s bodies are different, you know there is no getting through. Which is why Navratilova needs to stop apologizing, and get back to telling off the haters.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Welcome to the “transphobe” club, Martina.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/03/04/martina-learns-nothing-short-total-surrender-will-appease-transgender-activists/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8">https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/03/04/martina-learns-nothing-short-total-surrender-will-appease-transgender-activists/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8</a></p>
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<p>Here Here.....The Democrat Party is a coalition of groups that are based on pure hate. If you don't goose step exactly like you, they must HATE you. There is no middle ground. There is no conversation. There is just pure hate. </p>British Olympian Sharron Davies Says Transgender Athletes Should be Barred from Competing Against Biological Womentag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-06:2833032:BlogPost:2125052019-03-06T02:02:18.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sharron Davies, a British Olympian, has had accusations of “hate” thrown her way after saying that transgender athletes should be barred from competing against biological women.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Among other awards, Davies won a silver medal in swimming at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. However, she is now under fire for comments about transgender athletes that some are calling “transphobic.”…</span><br></br></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sharron Davies, a British Olympian, has had accusations of “hate” thrown her way after saying that transgender athletes should be barred from competing against biological women.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Among other awards, Davies won a silver medal in swimming at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. However, she is now under fire for comments about transgender athletes that some are calling “transphobic.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Davies recently took to Twitter to express her concern that transgender athletes make sports unfair for women.</span></p>
<p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I have nothing against anyone who wishes 2be transgender,” Davies wrote on March 1. “However, I believe there is a fundamental difference between the binary sex u r born with &amp; the gender u may identify as. To protect women’s sport those with a male sex advantage should not be able 2compete in women’s sport.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After the inevitable backlash, Davies defended her point by noting that she is not the only natural-born female athlete who feels that transgenders are essentially cheating natural women out of titles.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“It is not a transphobic thing – I really want to say we have no issue with people who are transgender,” Davies told the BBC on Saturday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”Every single woman athlete I’ve spoken to, and I have spoken to many, all of my friends in international sports, understand and feels the same way as me,” Davies added.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Davies also noted that it is incumbent upon athletes from the past to speak out for women’s rights.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Unfortunately, a lot of people who are in the races [now] are in a very difficult predicament when they can’t speak out,” she said. “It maybe falls to the people who were competing [in the past] who would understand the predicament that is being faced at the moment to try to create a debate, and try to explain how we feel there needs to be a fair and level playing field.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Indeed, tennis great Martina Navratilova recently became the target of attack by transgender activists for her stance that transgender athletes were “cheating” by competing against natural-born women.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women,” Navratilova said last December. “There must be some standards and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Navratilova also called transgender athletes competing against women “insane.”</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/03/03/british-olympian-sharron-davies-says-transgenders-athletes-should-be-barred-from-competing-against-biological-women/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29">https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/03/03/british-olympian-sharron-davies-says-transgenders-athletes-should-be-barred-from-competing-against-biological-women/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here...I called this as soon as this started. Slowly people are realizing that guys competeing as a girl is cheating. It is harming the real girls competing. Those girls train and train to be their best only to get creamed by a guy pretending to be a girl.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is happening more and more in girl's sports. I have a feeling that this will be increasing. If you dare to speak the truth, you will be smeared.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wonder how many Russian guys will be competing in the girls events in the 2020 Olympics? I think this will be collution we can prove that Russia is invovled with.</span></p>Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Coolingtag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-02:2833032:BlogPost:2125022019-03-02T17:59:29.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><br></br>Mike Shedlock</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Those promoting CO2 as the reason for global warming are hucksters and those taken in by hucksters.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please consider NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Those promoting CO2 as the reason for global warming are hucksters and those taken in by hucksters.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please consider NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The new data is coming from NASA’s Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry or SABER instrument, which is onboard the space agency’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite. SABER monitors infrared radiation from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances that play a vital role in the energy output of our thermosphere, the very top level of our atmosphere.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum. It’s one of the most important ways the solar cycle affects our planet,” said Mlynczak, who is the associate principal investigator for SABER.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The new NASA findings are in line with studies released by UC-San Diego and Northumbria University in Great Britain last year, both of which predict a Grand Solar Minimum in coming decades due to low sunspot activity. Both studies predicted sun activity similar to the Maunder Minimum of the mid-17th to early 18th centuries, which coincided to a time known as the Little Ice Age, during which temperatures were much lower than those of today.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If all of this seems as if NASA is contradicting itself, you’re right — sort of. After all, NASA also reported last week that Arctic sea ice was at its sixth lowest level since measuring began. Isn’t that a sure sign of global warming?</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All any of this “proves” is that we have, at best, a cursory understanding of Earth’s incredibly complex climate system. So when mainstream media and carbon-credit salesman Al Gore breathlessly warn you that we must do something about climate change, it’s all right to step back, take a deep breath, and realize that we don’t have the knowledge, skill or resources to have much effect on the Earth’s climate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Incredibly Complex Systems</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">See the problem? Alarmists take one variable, CO2 that is only a tiny part of extremely long cycles and make projections far into to the future based off it.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I was in grade school, the alarmists were worried about global cooling. Amusingly, I recall discussing in science class the need to put soot on the arctic ice to melt it to stop the advance of glaciers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report said we have only 12 years left to save the planet. It triggered the usual frantic and ridiculous reactions.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NBC News offered this gem: “A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made ‘volcanic’ eruption” to cool the planet.” Its article proclaimed, “Scientists and some environmentalists believe nations might have to mimic volcanic gases as a last-ditch effort to protect Earth from extreme warming.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Geo-engineering: Ignoring the Consequences</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Watts Up With That discusses Geo-Engineering: Ignoring the Consequences.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From 1940 to almost 1980, the average global temperature went down. Political concerns and the alleged scientific consensus focused on global cooling. Alarmists said it could be the end of agriculture and civilization. Journalist Lowell Ponte wrote in his 1976 book, The Cooling.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The problem then was – and still is now – that people are educated in the false philosophy of uniformitarianism: the misguided belief that conditions always were and always will be as they are now, and any natural changes will occur over long periods of time.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Consequently, most people did not understand that the cooling was part of the natural cycle of climate variability, or that changes are often huge and sudden. Just 18,000 years ago we were at the peak of an Ice Age. Then, most of the ice melted and sea levels rose 150 meters (490 feet), because it was warmer for almost all of the last 10,000 years than it is today.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">During the cooling “danger,” geo-engineering proposals included:</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">* building a dam across the Bering Straits to block cold Arctic water, to warm the North Pacific and the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere;</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">* dumping black soot on the Arctic ice cap to promote melting;</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">* adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere to raise global temperatures.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” as advocated by the IPCC in its October 8 news conference, is also foolish. Historic records show that, at about 410 parts per million (ppm), the level of CO2 supposedly in the atmosphere now, we are near the lowest in the last 280 million years. As plants evolved over that time, the average level was 1200 ppm. That is why commercial greenhouses boost CO2 to that level to increase plant growth and yields by a factor of four.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The IPCC has been wrong in every prediction it’s made since 1990. It would be a grave error to use its latest forecasts as the excuse to engage in geo-engineering experiments with the only planet we have.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Global Warming Errs Badly</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Next, please consider Extreme weather not proof of global warming, NASA on global cooling</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To understand the great confusion about global warming or climate change, my most lucid guide has been Dr. Richard Lindzen — a former Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT and member of the US National Academy of Sciences — and his now famous lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation last October 8.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In just a number of segments of his lecture, Dr. Lindzen crystallized for me why the church of global warming errs so badly in its dogma.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Global warming promoters fostered the popular public perception of the science of climate change as quite simple. It is that here’s one phenomenon to be explained (“global average temperature,” or GAT, which, says Lindzen, is a thoroughly unscientific concept). And there’s one explanation for it: the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GAT is only one of many important phenomena to measure in the climate system, and CO2 is only one of many factors that influence both GAT and all the other phenomena.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CO2’s role in controlling GAT is at most perhaps 2 percent, yet climate alarmists think of it as the “control knob.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most people readily confuse weather (short-term, local-scale temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, cloudiness, and more) with climate (long-term, large-scale of each) and think weather phenomena are driven by climate phenomena; they aren’t.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Consequently, as Lindzen says, the currently popular narrative concerning this system is this: The climate, a complex multifactor system, can be summarized in just one variable, the globally averaged temperature change, and is primarily controlled by the 1 to 2 percent perturbation in the energy budget due to a single variable — carbon dioxide — among many variables of comparable importance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Big Chill</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place?</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would it surprise you to learn the greatest global two-year cooling event of the last century just occurred? From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at <a href="https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/">https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/</a>). This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 2016-18 Big Chill was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average. February 2018 was colder than February 1998. If someone is tempted to argue that the reason for recent record cooling periods is that global temperatures are getting more volatile, it's not true. The volatility of monthly global average temperatures since 2000 is only two-thirds what it was from 1880 to 1999.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">None of this argues against global warming. The 1950s was the last decade cooler than the previous decade, the next five decades were all warmer on average than the decade before. Two year cooling cycles, even if they set records, are statistical noise compared to the long-term trend.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My point is that statistical cooling outliers garner no media attention. The global average temperature numbers come out monthly. If they show a new hottest year on record, that's a big story. If they show a big increase over the previous month, or the same month in the previous year, that's a story. If they represent a sequence of warming months or years, that's a story. When they show cooling of any sort—and there have been more cooling months than warming months since anthropogenic warming began—there's no story.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bombarded With Garbage</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course you did not know that unless you follow NASA, Real Clear Markets, or Watts Up With That.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meanwhile, everyone is constantly bombarded with total garbage like Al Gore's claim Migrant Caravans are Victims of Global Warming.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And of course, the media is fawning all over AOC's "New Green Deal" hype as she too is a believer the World Will End in 12 Years if we don't address climate change.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Guardian and the Intercept are both happy to promote this nonsense as of course the entirety of mainstream media.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alarm Bells</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I was in grade school we had major alarm bells over global cooling. In high school it was population growth. Then came food shortages followed by peak oil.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now the crisis du jour is global warming.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's always about something!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">CO2 Derangement Symptom</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Watts Up With That accurately labels global warming hysteria as the CO2 Derangement Syndrome.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That's an excellent synopsis of the current state of affairs so please give it a good look.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally, even if you still believe man-made global warming is a threat, please ponder the notion that governments will not do anything sensible about it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2019/01/30/amidst-global-warming-hysteria-nasa-expects-global-cooling-n2540500?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=03/02/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958">https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2019/01/30/amidst-global-warming-hysteria-nasa-expects-global-cooling-n2540500?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=03/02/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here...NASA backups that fact that it is the lack of Sun Spots that we should be worrying about. The lack of Sun Spots causes cooling.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AOC, Al Gore, are you paying attention? I doubt it. This real news doesn't fit your tyrannical control scheme to micro-manage our lives. You two want to rule over us with a iron fist. We Americans want Freedom. That is our birth right! You two want to destroy our Freedom.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AOC, Al Gore, so what is your plan for de-icing equipment for your wind turbines? How about automatic snow clearing devices for your solar panels? Both are going to be needed as Earth cools.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AOC, how big are the snow plows going to be on the front of your trains? Are you planning to mass produce rotary snow plows to ckear the tracks for all your trains? How are you going to keep switches clear of snow and ice without the propane gas heaters railroads use today? Electricity? Where is all that electricity going to dome from? Snow covered solar panel? Iced up wind turbines? I bet you haven't thought of all that! </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Climate change is real. The secret is we are powerless despite what all AOC and Al Gore say. No government program, no matter how many hundreds of trillions of dollar we pour down the rat hole, is going to change it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A better plan is to figure out how to adapt to the change rather than trying to change it. If a little or big Ice Age is coming, how are we going to adapt to it. But no one is talking about that. That is where AOC and Al Gore should be going. But sadly that won't happen. They are about power, control, micromanagement, and stealing our freedoms.</span></p>Reparations A Down Payment On National Declinetag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-02:2833032:BlogPost:2125932019-03-02T13:40:40.000ZFrederick Meekinshttp://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/FrederickMeekins
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">History teaches that, when candidates are swept into office largely as a result of promising the electorate significant outlays from the treasury, the particular regime in question is at its death knell and on the verge of collapse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In an attempt to pander to Blacks in this sort of manner, Elizabeth Warren --- identified by Reuters in the account of this policy proposal as White so we can be relieved that the leftist…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">History teaches that, when candidates are swept into office largely as a result of promising the electorate significant outlays from the treasury, the particular regime in question is at its death knell and on the verge of collapse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In an attempt to pander to Blacks in this sort of manner, Elizabeth Warren --- identified by Reuters in the account of this policy proposal as White so we can be relieved that the leftist press has settled this brouhaha as to whether or not she's actually an American Indian --- has come out in favor of reparations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In particular, the Senator is backing legislation that would assist minorities in making a down payment on a house.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But if it is wrong to deny someone access to housing on the basis of race, why is it right to assist an individual to procure housing when it is obvious that the person does not deserve to own a house on the basis of meritorious achievement?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conversely, why is a Rustbelt or Appalachian White barely getting by as a box store cashier obligated to provide the taxes so the likes of Jussie Smollet, Al Sharpton, and Jessie Jackson can be provided a down payment on a house?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If targeted populations were lavished with these handouts, would they shut up once and for all regarding historic mistreatments they never directly suffered or will they continue to invoke these in the ongoing attempt to extort additional concessions from gullible and easily manipulated Whites?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Providing government housing to vast swathes of the population benefits neither those it is lavished upon nor the areas in which such individuals come to reside.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The squalor endemic to numerous public housing projects is testament to this truth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If Elizabeth Warren really was an Indian, you'd think she'd already be familiar with this sad reality.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Frederick Meekins</span></p>Pelosi Threatens Moderate Democrats for Voting With GOP on Procedural Votestag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-01:2833032:BlogPost:2127002019-03-01T01:36:57.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told moderate Democrats during a closed-door meeting on Thursday to stop siding with Republicans on procedural votes, saying they could become a lower priority for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2020.</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pelosi met with the Democratic Caucus behind closed doors to discuss recent procedural…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told moderate Democrats during a closed-door meeting on Thursday to stop siding with Republicans on procedural votes, saying they could become a lower priority for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2020.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pelosi met with the Democratic Caucus behind closed doors to discuss recent procedural votes that exposed the divisions within the party, according to two individuals who spoke to Politico. Since the Democrats took over the House last month, Republicans have won two motions to recommit, including a Wednesday vote that angered progressives, Politico reported.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The latest defeat came on Wednesday, as the House debated legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales — a position overwhelmingly favored by Democrats. When Republicans moved to amend the bill to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement be told of any undocumented immigrant who tries to buy a gun, 26 Democrats voted with the GOP. The language was added to the gun bill, spoiling an important Democratic legislative achievement.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">An earlier GOP motion condemning anti-Semitism was successfully attached to a House resolution barring U.S. involvement in the Yemeni civil war. That maneuver, which was backed by every Democrat, later caused parliamentary problems in the Senate and upended Democratic attempts to challenge President Donald Trump's foreign policy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">During Thursday's meeting, Pelosi warned Democrats who voted with Republicans on the latest motion to recommit, saying, "This is not a day at the beach. This is the Congress of the United States." In retaliation for voting with Republicans, Pelosi said the DCCC could treat their 2020 races as a low priority, although Democratic lawmakers and aides told Politico they don't think this will become a reality. In response to Pelosi's warning, freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), who has become a vocal progressive voice, told Pelosi she could alert activists when Democrats vote with Republicans.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Inside the meeting, Ocasio-Cortez said she has "a text chain with 200 activists in her district" that she's in constant contact with on issues facing Democrats.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ocasio-Cortez said she even considered voting against the background checks bill because of the Republican language on ICE, perhaps the most-hated federal agency on the left.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ocasio-Cortez went up to the gallery after the vote to tell activists she "had to choose between immigrants and gun violence. Not because of Republicans, but because of Democrats," said a source in the room.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"I think it is an extension of Trump’s tactics into the House and we cannot legitimatize it and we cannot allow for it and we cannot support it," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters after the meeting.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While Democrats vowed they would improve their preparation for Republican motions, the controversy divided Democratic House leadership. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) have suggested members can vote with Republicans if it will improve political standing. In contrast to the Democrats, Republicans were unified and didn't lose a single motion when they controlled the House from 2011 to 2019.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pelosi also told her caucus that members who vote with Republican motions put undue pressure on vulnerable colleagues who prefer to stick with the party to win.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"We are either a team or weren’t not, and we have to make that decision," Pelosi said.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Multiple Democrats expressed frustration or support for Pelosi's call to stay united, including freshman Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (D., N.M.) who voted for the GOP motion on Wednesday. He was visibly emotional and pointedly said courage looks different to different people, according to two sources in the room.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Justice Democrats, a progressive PAC that helped elect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, expressed anger over Wednesday's vote. "How did Nancy Pelosi let this happen?" the group tweeted. The vote to amend the Democratic legislation went in Republicans' favor 220-209.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/pelosi-threatens-moderate-democrats-for-voting-with-gop-on-procedural-votes/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=1867cfba00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1867cfba00-46096201">https://freebeacon.com/politics/pelosi-threatens-moderate-democrats-for-voting-with-gop-on-procedural-votes/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&amp;utm_campaign=1867cfba00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1867cfba00-46096201</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here....We are seeing the dictatorial rule they plan on cramming down our throats if they ever get more power. If you don't goose step properly, we will get rid of you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or Pelosi told them, I own your voting card. You WILL vote as I tell you. I will tolerate NO diversity. We are of only one thought. I will tell you what that thought is. You will not think for yourself. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Something to think about. If the Democrats do not tolerate members voting they way their constituents want, how will they tolerate those that disagree with them if they get more power. Will they build re-education camps for us? Or will they build concentration camps and just "post birth abort" us? I know this may sounds crazy. But if they act like this with their own, how will they continue to devolve to those that have other ideas and oppose them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No one thought that Adolf Hitler or Lenin when they came to power would become so ruthless once they assumed power. Both at first were praised and would bring great things to their countries. Instead tens of millions died.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Learn history. Remember history. Do not repeat the tragic mistakes of the past! </span></p>Alec Baldwin: Michael Cohen Deserves Medal of Honortag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-03-01:2833032:BlogPost:2125892019-03-01T00:20:55.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Actor Alec Baldwin said former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen deserves a “Congressional Medal of Honor” for his appearance before a Congressional Committee Wednesday.<br></br>The furiously anti-Trump actor said he didn’t know if Cohen was telling the truth but that the former Trump lawyer would help us get past “this nightmare.”<br></br>“I don’t know if Michael Cohen is truthful,” Alec Baldwin tweeted on Wednesday, “but if he is, he should get the Congressional Medal of…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Actor Alec Baldwin said former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen deserves a “Congressional Medal of Honor” for his appearance before a Congressional Committee Wednesday.<br/>The furiously anti-Trump actor said he didn’t know if Cohen was telling the truth but that the former Trump lawyer would help us get past “this nightmare.”<br/>“I don’t know if Michael Cohen is truthful,” Alec Baldwin tweeted on Wednesday, “but if he is, he should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for finally…finally…moving us toward the end of this nightmare.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Actor Alec Baldwin said former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen deserves a “Congressional Medal of Honor” for his appearance before a Congressional Committee Wednesday.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The furiously anti-Trump actor said he didn’t know if Cohen was telling the truth but that the former Trump lawyer would help us get past “this nightmare.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I don’t know if Michael Cohen is truthful,” Alec Baldwin tweeted on Wednesday, “but if he is, he should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for finally…finally…moving us toward the end of this nightmare.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course, only members of the military receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Perhaps the actor meant a Medal of Freedom? On the other hand, those are only bestowed by the president, so I am not sure if he expects that would happen.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alec Baldwin should not speak too quickly about Cohen because at least twice during his testimony he refuted key aspects of the Democrat charges against Trump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/27/alec-baldwin-michael-cohen-deserves-medal-of-honor/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29">https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/27/alec-baldwin-michael-cohen-deserves-medal-of-honor/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here....You give an idiot a big enough microphone, the world will figure out that they are an even bigger idiot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The left is fawning over a convicted liar. Talk about building their mansion on a sandbar. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday the hated Cohen. Today they love this liar. Who knows what the script will be tomorrow.</span></p>
<p></p>What if Trump Signed an EO That Mandated Members of Congress Use VA Healthcare?tag:www.patriotsheartnetwork.net,2019-02-27:2833032:BlogPost:2126862019-02-27T16:37:08.000ZSGT William A. Geresy (ret)http://www.patriotsheartnetwork.net/profile/SGTWilliamAGeresyret
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Imagine if in some spectacular move, Trump decided to give active and former members of U.S. Congress even more benefits? That he signed an Executive Order that allowed our elected officials to enjoy the same top-notch healthcare that our nation's veterans enjoy under the current U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The results would be…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Imagine if in some spectacular move, Trump decided to give active and former members of U.S. Congress even more benefits? That he signed an Executive Order that allowed our elected officials to enjoy the same top-notch healthcare that our nation's veterans enjoy under the current U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The results would be astonishing.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Picture if you could, a prominent U.S. Senator checking into the Emergency Room at a VA Medical Center in their home state complaining of chest pain. After waiting countless hours to see a doctor, they are denied access by the attending Physician’s Assistant – a contracted government agent and tells them that they are most likely only having muscle spasms and send them on their way. The senator’s constituents and the nation are later shocked to hear that they suffered a heart attack after being found on the grounds of their estate, clenching a large bottle of Ibuprofen in one hand and their cell phone in the other. Only to find out that they were later rushed to a local private hospital for care.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course, the story above is fictional to make a point – but is dangerously close to the reality for many veterans.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sadly, there are thousands of VA horror stories. Stories like that of my friend Sergeant First Class Richard Stayskal – a U.S. Marine turned U.S. Army Green Beret who suffered sharp chest pain and shortness of breath after taking a bullet in the chest from an enemy fighter in Ramadi, Iraq in 2004. Stayskal checked in to Womack Army Medical Center. After days of waiting while still on active duty in North Carolina was told he had pneumonia after a full body scan. Not pneumonia – STAGE 4 CANCER.</span></p>
<p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now, diagnosed with less than a year to live, Stayskal is still leading and fighting like a Marine. This time he’s fighting to change the 1950 FERES Doctrine that prohibits him from suing the government for medical malpractice. Denying his claim of gross negligence from the contracted physician who misdiagnosed him in January 2017.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to Lawyers and Settlements, and online legal news source, “In 2013 the [VA] tended to 5.6 million veterans, a 32 percent increase from 2002. Increasingly, more medical negligence claims have been directed toward VA medical malpractice claims involving a wide range of mistakes, from prescribing the wrong medication to botched surgeries to failing to diagnose illnesses. Some mistakes have resulted in death.”</span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This country was founded on the blood and sacrifices of those willing to fight for freedom – they put their country above their own needs. The public and politicians should never forget that it wasn’t until all of the battles had been won by our brave revolutionary warriors that our country was, only then, in a position to establish a political system.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our military collectively protects the government and citizens today – still, a nation at war. They enable them to sit comfortably on Capitol Hill to write policy or apathetically ignore those that are broken. Policies that are literally killing our returning heroes and denying their families just compensation when they are the victims of medical malpractice. Real people who served their country for years, sometimes decades. Deploying to war zones and hazardous areas where their bodies become racked from overuse and abuse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is the government’s responsibility to fix the things that they have ultimately broken. Instead, politicians have created and harbored a system that is corrupt, inept, and woefully unresponsive to the needs of veterans. Abandoning those who protect them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Even though the VA has undeniably helped some veterans – when they fail to do so and do harm to veterans who put their trust in the system – there has to be accountability. When medical practitioners or VA administrators hide within the maze of a well-formulated bureaucracy to protect themselves, it is a disgrace.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But make no mistake, our veteran community and our service members are not disposable. We can no longer allow those who protect our country to be churned through the bowels of broken government healthcare systems that treat them as waste.</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems convenient for politicians to use veterans once or twice a year as political puppets to make themselves feel better – or help their re-election prospects. However, few are actually changing antiquated laws and policies that can really make a difference to veteran healthcare and entitlements.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Congressional leaders, who say they “serve” their country should use the VA healthcare system for a while – their families, and their kids – if VA healthcare is good enough for those who protect our government, shouldn’t it be good enough for our government?</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Major Scott A. Huesing USMC (Ret) is the bestselling author of Echo in Ramadi – The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City. He is a proven combat leader that has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa. He has planned, led, and conducted hundreds of combat missions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/scottahuesing/2019/02/26/what-if-trump-signed-an-eo-that-mandated-members-of-congress-use-va-healthcare-n2542219?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=02/27/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958">https://townhall.com/columnists/scottahuesing/2019/02/26/what-if-trump-signed-an-eo-that-mandated-members-of-congress-use-va-healthcare-n2542219?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;newsletterad=02/27/2019&amp;bcid=0272c3369d98d849c4dc3ea71d5620b8&amp;recip=22339958</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Me Here....This would be great if President Trump would do this. I would add to the EO that Congress is banned from using VA services in the DC area. They would have to primarily use the VA in there home state for health care.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Congress as usual gives themself the best care. Those that take almost exactly the same oath and risk their very life to uphold thier oath get the HMO from HELL. If it were reversed, it would be better. But those wind bags in Congress won't degrade themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The other sad relity of the VA medical system is it is unionized. The Democrat Party gets the bulk of those dues for campaigning. So the veteran is just a pawn to continue to take tax payer money meant for Veteran Health Care and use it instead to fund Democrat campaigns. SO to increase the "donations", the Democrats support continuing to trap Veterans in the HMO from HELL. The freedom we served to defend is denied us to continue this scheme.</span></p>
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